The policies to communicable diseases are as stated:
Companies that have persons with communicable diseases will be assessed on current medical judgments, the risks of transmitting the illness to others, the symptoms of each person who has the disease, and identifying risks and responding to employees with a communicable disease.
Communicable diseases include, but are not limited to, measles, influenza, viral hepatitis-A (infectious hepatitis), viral hepatitis-B (serum hepatitis), human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection), AIDS, AIDS-Related Complex (ARC), leprosy, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and tuberculosis. [Company Name] may choose to broaden this definition within its best interest and in accordance with information received through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (SHRM).
Companies are not to discriminate employees based on their disease. Applicants and current employees are not to be denied work because of their disease. However, companies may reserve the right to deny work in certain facilities due to medical observations and restrictions.
Companies will respect and protect privacy of individuals with communicable diseases. They will maintain professional and legal safeguards to protect patients privacy about the diseases they may have.
Disease Prevention Programs
- Immunization Programs
- Office of Aids Administration
- Sexually Transmitted Disease Control
- Shoo the Flu
- Perinatal Hepatitis B Program
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