State and District TB Cells play a crucial role in engaging workplaces to establish a TB free workplace setting. Their role includes:
- Mapping of key industries and leading business association/s in the state and districts respectively.
- States may develop a ‘State TB Workplace Policy’ in alignment with National Strategic Plan (NSP) and National Policy Framework to address TB and TB related co-morbidities in the world of work.
- Garnering political and administrative support for collaborating with different workplaces to initiate workplace intervention for TB.
- Developing state and district specific road-map or work plan for an intensified approach to influence different workplaces to adopt interventions for establishing a TB Free Workplace.
- Organize state and district level sensitization meetings and training programme for nodal officers of corporates for partnership for collaborative action.
- Providing technical support to engage workplaces in the TB space
- Supporting capacity building of management, workplace committee, peer educators, and health staff of workplace.
- Ensuring provisions for TB evaluation/testing, treatment initiation, and public health actions for the workers in collaboration with the workplace committee.
- Developing IEC materials and organize awareness generation activities on TB in the workplaces.
- States can develop checklist, reporting system, conduct programmatic review meetings to get update from Districts on corporate response on TB, conduct regular review meeting, field visit to corporates.
- District to conduct assessment and verify a corporate’s claim on being a TB Free Workplace.
- The State TB office to maintain a district-wise database of certified TB Free Workplaces.
- Documenting and disseminating best practices on workplace interventions for TB.
- Facilitate selected industries for outstanding contribution on TB intervention.
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