---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 549.15"
title: "28"
number: "549.15"
heading: "Infectious disease training and preventive measures."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/549.15"
---

# §549.15. Infectious disease training and preventive measures.

- (a) The HSA will ensure that a qualified health care professional provides training, incorporating a question-and-answer session, about infectious diseases to all newly committed inmates, during Admission and Orientation.
- (b) Inmates in work assignments which staff determine to present the potential for occupational exposure to blood or infectious body fluids will receive annual training on prevention of work-related exposures and will be offered vaccination for Hepatitis B.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 70 FR 29193, May 20, 2005, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 10 U.S.C. 876b; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3524, 4001, 4005, 4042, 4045, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), Chapter 313, 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984 as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510.