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The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health standards board will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 11, to to consider a petition from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation to require condom use in adult film production. The petition would apply to gay, straight, bisexual and all other productions.
The foundation filed the petition in December 2009. If approved, CalOSHA would be required to issue regulations requiring condom use and other safe sex protections for adult-film workers, increased safety training, and frequent, regular, routine testing for sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
CalOSHA standards board staff as well as CalOSHA staff have recommended that the board create an advisory committee to consider the petition rather than approving the petition outright.
The AIDS Healthcare Foundation began pressing for all condoms, all the time on porn sets in 2004 after a female straight porn performer tested positive for HIV. Numerous failures in the straight porn industry's testing regime (which requires a PCR DNA HIV test 72 hours prior to non-condom performance) led to the infection. Subsequent data showed very high numbers of STD infections among men and women in the straight porn industry.
After receiving no response from CalOSHA for five yeras, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation sued Los Angeles County, allegeding that city public health officials failed to enforce bloodborne pathogen laws requiring employers to protect workers against exposure to bodily fluids. The suit was dismissed, but the Foundation is appealing.