Porn Condom Requirement Remains, Despite Cal/OSHA Board Vote, Reminds OSHA Board Chair

In News by AHF

“You are already required to wear condoms; you’re just not doing it,” Dave Thomas, the chairman of the work safety board, said Thursday. “That’s the law. It’s just not being enforced.”

New York Times, February 18, 2016

LOS ANGELES (February 19, 2016) On the heels of Cal/OSHA’s Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board’s failure to pass an amendment to OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standards (Title 8, Section 5193.1) clarifying regulations regarding condom use California’s adult films yesterday in Oakland, AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) is issuing this statement to clarify the fact that despite the failure of Standards Board to approve the updated California’s workplace Bloodborne Pathogens standards (Section 5193.1), the requirement for condom use in all adult film production remains in place. Under existing and ongoing California and Federal OSHA standards, condom use IS required in all adult film production. This point was made by Dave Thomas, Chair of the Occupational Safety & Health Standards Board yesterday after the vote and as reported below by the New York Times (“Actors in Pornographic Films Fight Proposal to Enforce Safety Regulations” Thomas Fuller, Feb. 18, 2016)

 

“You are already required to wear condoms; you’re just not doing it,” Dave Thomas, the chairman of the work safety board, said Thursday. “That’s the law. It’s just not being enforced.”

New York Times

February 18, 2016

 

Yesterday, following the vote, AHF announced its intention to immediately file a new petition seeking to again amend and clarify Cal/OSHA’s existing bloodborne pathogens standard (5193) with specificity to the adult film industry.

Separately, since AHF first filed its petition on this workplace safety issue to CalOSHA on December 17, 2009, AHF, which now cares for 594,829 HIV/AIDS patients in 35 countries, has added 479,829 patients[1] to its roster of HIV/AIDS patients in its care and treatment around the world, an average of 213 new patients per day—including several former adult film performers who became infected with HIV while working in the industry.

[1] In 4th Quarter 2009, AHF was caring for 120,000 patients in 22 countries.

PrEP Patient’s Drug-resistant HIV Infection; Bone Loss, Fractures in Others, Suggest Caution
AHF to File New OSHA Petition on Condoms in Porn