N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:53-3.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 23, December 2, 2024

Section 3A:53-3.2 - Health requirements for shelter facility staff

(a) Tuberculin testing requirements:

1. Prior to or upon working for or with a shelter facility, each staff member who comes in contact with the children for at least one full day a week shall take a Mantoux tuberculin skin test with five TU (tuberculin units) of PPD tuberculin and submit to the shelter facility written proof of the results of the test.

2. If the Mantoux tuberculin test result is insignificant (0 to 9 mm of induration), no further testing shall be required. The Office or shelter facility shall have the authority at any time in the future to require a staff member to retake the Mantoux tuberculin test, if there is reason to believe or suspect that the staff member may have contracted tuberculosis.

3. If the Mantoux tuberculin skin test result is significant (10 or more mm of induration), the individual shall take a chest x-ray. If the chest x-ray shows significant results, the staff member may not come in contact with the children unless she or he submits to the shelter facility a written statement from a physician certifying that she or he poses no threat of tuberculosis contagion.

4. Any staff member who fails to submit to or to receive satisfactory results from the tuberculin testing requirements, as described in (a)1 through 3 above, shall be prohibited from having contact with the children at the shelter facility.

(b) Prior to working for or with a shelter facility, and at least once every three years thereafter, each staff member who comes in contact with the children for at least the equivalent of one full day a week shall submit a written statement from a physician that she or he is in good health and free from chronic or recurrent communicable disease. The initial statement shall be based on an examination conducted within the six months immediately preceding such person's association with the shelter facility.

(c) Any staff member who, upon examination, shows indication of a physical, emotional or mental condition that could be hazardous to a child, other staff or self or that would otherwise prevent satisfactory performance of duties shall not be assigned or returned to a position until the condition is alleviated to the satisfaction of the examining physician and the administrator.

N.J. Admin. Code § 3A:53-3.2

Amended by R.2016 d.033, effective 4/18/2016.
See: 47 N.J.R. 2613(a), 47 N.J.R. 2695(a), 48 N.J.R. 649(a).
In (a)2, substituted "Office or" for "Bureau of"; in (a)3, substituted "she or he" for "she/he" twice, "result is" for "results in", and "threat of" for "threat to"; and in (b), substituted "she or he" for "she/he".