OSHA on Thursday opened for 60 days the tuberculosis (TB) rulemaking record to give interested persons the opportunity to review and comment on the agency's final risk assessment and the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report "Tuberculosis in the Workplace."
OSHA last reopened the TB record during June 1999 seeking comment on new studies or data that would assist the agency in determining the occupational risk of TB exposure. The agency asked two experts in the fields of TB epidemiology and risk assessment to review the draft risk assessment. The reviews by Dr. Richard Menzies, professor and director of the Respiratory Epidemiology Unit at McGill University in Montreal, and Dr. Mark Nicas, professor at the University of California Berkeley and a certified industrial hygienist, have been concluded. Their evaluation is also available for comment.