August 1, 2014 at 05:29 PM
Industry experts engaged in advanced-design textiles are urging health care providers and policymakers to support the use of fluid-repellant laboratory coats as a “first line of defense” against disease pathogen transmission in health care settings, saying such apparel amounts to an engineering control against the biological health hazards that are ubiquitous in hospitals and other facilities -- a push that occurs as OSHA reportedly moves forward internally on a rule to address infectious diseases across numerous types of work sites.