News

"If hospitals were subjected to the same protection standards as factories, many would have been shut down a long time ago." So says George Kappler, CEO of protective clothing manufacturer Kappler Inc. "One reason healthcare workers are inadequately protected from diseases like H1N1 is that unlike a nuclear contamination incident, it's harder to pinpoint the work environment as the exact source of a life-threatening exposure," he adds. "When a pandemic is underway hospitals can get away with saying that a worker's disease might have come from outside the workplace.