What is a TB Free Work Place? an Overview

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Read this Chapter to learn - What a TB Free Workplace means and how to implement TB Free workplace.

Page: 1 What is a TB Free Workplace?

An Overview: ‘TB Free Workplace’ is an organization with adequate model and policies for prevention and control of TB by integrating awareness, health education and service delivery with existing systems, structures and resources, and by taking cognisance of their business agendas thus by reducing the burden of TB inside the organization.

A TB Free Workplace will have supportive environment and provisions where employees including contractual workers:

• Have easy access to information and services on TB and employees/ worker feel confident to utilize these services;
• Periodic Intensive Case Finding, workers having active TB is identified early and is put on treatment;
• Provisions are in place to support treatment adherence with job security;
• There is no discrimination either based on real or perceived TB status of workers;
• Favourable policy/guidelines are in place to protect rights of TB patients and
• No or Low TB incidence among workers are being report in last one year.

The goal is to implement a comprehensive program on TB prevention and care inside the organization.

Industries can help India's TB outcomes by enabling access to early detection, diagnosis, and high-quality care and treatment services by investing in the health of their own workforce.

Key activities for implementing TB Free workplace:

• Setting up Workplace committee or nominating a focal point 
• Training of master trainers followed by implimenting training on TB to all the employees through the master traininers
• Awareness Generation by circulating communication materials on TB
• Organizing periodic screening for TB
• Facilitating treatment support to identified TB patients, ensuring all the TB patients are put on treatment
• Counselling services for treatment adherence and linkages with government
• Monitoring, Documentation and Reporting
• TB in HR induction

The image below will provide a 360⁰ view of how a TB free workplace should be:

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