An occupational health nurse is working with management in a firm that provides commercial building restoration, including asbestos removal. Which action does the nurse recommend to management?
a. Provide annual screening chest x-rays for those exposed to asbestos.
b. Purchase protective gear and develop pol-icies mandating its use.
c. Offer "stop smoking" programs on site several times a year.
d. Routinely distribute testing kits for occult fecal blood.
B
Asbestos is a powerful carcinogen. Chronic exposure, even to small amounts of loose asbestos fibers, increases the risk for development of lung cancer. Employees should wear personal pro-tective gear when working with asbestos. Management should provide this gear and should de-velop policies requiring employees to use it. Stop-smoking programs would not be as beneficial in preventing cancer in this group of people as would limiting asbestos exposure. Routine chest x-rays and fecal occult blood testing will not prevent cancer.
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