TX-unsafe working conditions? (qualify, state, trigger, contact)

[your.letters]

I work at a call center and we've had a scabies outbreak that's been going on for about 3 months now. It seems that it's just going around the center from person to person. The girl that sits next to me got them last week so now I'm paranoid about getting them because I have 2 children in school and a newborn at home. I would hate to bring it home to them, especially the new baby. Would this would qualify as an unsafe working condition if I were to quit? The center was never closed down for cleaning and my supervisor even said that this was something that was just going to be going around the center. This even made it to our local news channel but I feel lile nothing was ever done about it. Any advice?

[Chyvan]

You need to research scabies. If you can find an authorative source that they actually crawl from desk to desk, then you can attempt to pursue it. My thought was that scabies was a contact to contact thing. Everyone I've known with them had them on their hands and places touched by hands. Luckily, very low incidents of scabies in my state now. It was back east before I moved that I'd had a brief run in with them.

It wouldn't be unreasonable to ask your employer to provide gloves and such that you can wear at work and throw away on your way on your way home. I also wouldn't wear anything nice to work either. I'd wear old sweat pants and tshirts that I leave in the garage when I got home, and I'd throw them away without washing to protect my appliances. There's stuff you can do here short of quitting to put your employer on notice that you'll be a pain to deal with and they just might say, "adios," without you having to pull the trigger.