TSA Agents Aren't Following OSHA Medical Glove Laws: Are they Passing Around Diseases?

About 1992, with the fear of HIV and other blood born pathogens in medical and dental offices, OSHA passed new laws to protect medical workers. These laws included a covering up just about anything that was permanent in an operatory with clear pieces of tape, covering the chairs with a clear plastic bag, and of course changing your gloves anytime you left the work area. The overhead of dental offices went up across the country, and I am sure that is true with medical offices as well.

Interestingly enough, despite the TSA feeling you up around your private parts, with even reports they have broken into the boundary of underwear, the TSA aren't changing their medical grade rubber gloves after each passenger. Some people are worried about the spread of diseases.

When World Net Daily attempted to contact the TSA about their glove policy, they failed to provide an answer about the gloves. Passengers have noted they aren't changing their gloves like federal OSHA laws require for medical offices.

Martha Donahue writes,"For those of you who fly and opt for the 'pat down,' you need to demand the TSA thugs change their gloves. I've been watching on the news how they operate. People are being searched [with] dirty gloves ... gloves that have been in crotches, armpits, touching people who may be ill, people who pick their noses. Do you want those gloves touching you?

"These thugs are protecting themselves from you. You need to be protected from them," she wrote. "In a hospital, nursing home, in-home care, or even labs, that would never even be considered an option."

ABC reported one of its news employees documented how a TSA worker reached inside her underwear.

"The woman who checked me reached her hands inside my underwear and felt her way around," the ABC employee said in the network's report. "It was basically worse than going to the gynecologist. It was embarrassing. It was demeaning. It was inappropriate."