Who Takes It: Fire and Police Department personnel or others with occupational exposure to ATDs
Class Length: 1 hour (annual training required)
Topics:
• Symptoms that require medical evaluation, including tuberculosis (TB)
• Tasks and activities that may expose employees to ATDs
• Uses and limitations of preventive measures: engineering and work
practice controls; decontamination and disinfection; PPE and respirators
• PPE: selection criteria, uses and limitations, types, removal, handling,
cleaning, decontamination, and disposal
• Available vaccines; employer’s TB surveillance procedures; discussion of
false negative test potential
• Procedures for an exposure incident: reporting method, medical follow-up, post-exposure evaluation
