Health Care Provider Responsibilities
The health care provider can support the employer's ergonomics program by:
Healthcare providers should be familiar with employee jobs and job tasks.
- acquiring experience and training in the evaluation and treatment of MSDs
- seeking information and review materials regarding employee job activities
- ensuring employee privacy and confidentiality to the fullest extent permitted by law
Evaluating symptomatic employees including:
- medical histories with a complete description of symptoms
- descriptions of work activities as reported by the employees
- physical examinations appropriate to the presenting symptoms and histories
- initial assessments or diagnoses
- opinions as to whether occupational risk factors caused, contributed to, or exacerbated the conditions
- examinations to follow up symptomatic employees and document symptom improvements or resolutions
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7-3. To support the employer's ergonomics program, healthcare professionals should _____.
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