Measures for tackling spread of Airborne Infections inside the organization:

What’s inside:

Read this page to find out what steps can be taken to tackle the spread of TB and other airborne infections in the workplace (such as COVID-19, Influenza A H1N1, etc.)

Airborne Infection control  in the workplace:

Majorly two line of activities are recommended in controlling spread of Air Borne infection inside a work place:

1. Administrative Control
2. Environmental Control

Administrative Control Strategies:

The main objective of this strategy is to reduce the exposure to diseases like TB inside the workplace by:

1. Reduce the delay in diagnosis so that a person with active TB disease or any airborne infections will not spread the disease inside the workplace. 
2. Reducing airborne transmission of disease to other workers / employees by facilitating continues - awareness, early diagnosis and treatment support activities.    

Environmental Control:

Environmental control majorly includes ventilation (natural and mechanical), installation of easily accessible hand wash areas / hand sanitization dispensing units inside the facility.

Environmental controls work on the basic principle of dilution of infectious particles through real or ‘effective’ air exchange. In the case of ventilation, that dilution occurs through the introduction of fresh, uninfected air and the removal of infected air.