"In fiscal year 2008 TSA pilot tested various methods to screen airport workers to compare the benefits, costs, and impacts of 100percentt worker screening and random worker screening.
The GAO reported that, in addition to the worker screening pilot program, the TSA, "also implemented a random worker screening program and is currently working to apply its screening procedures consistently across airports".
Neither intervention involved worker screening, or the use of incentives.
Following reports of human illness, these measures were more rigorously promoted and reinforced through worker screening, information letters prepared by the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, and media bulletins.
Furthermore, most of the respondents saw the need to prioritize TB patients to minimize hospital stay and the need for healthcare worker screening to quickly detect TB infection.
The workers screen baggage after they leave check-in desks on the way to the hold of aircraft.Mr Pearce said: "These workers are doing one of the most vital jobs in the airport but are among the lowest paid".
What is special about Cook County Jail is that the social workers screen every single arrestee for mental illness.
