Medical Consultation and Examinations
Employers must do the following:
- Provide all exposed workers with an opportunity to receive medical attention by a licensed physician, including any follow-up examinations the examining physician determines to be necessary.
Employers must provide all exposed workers with an opportunity to receive medical attention by a licensed physician.
- Provide an opportunity for a medical consultation by a licensed physician whenever a laboratory worker may have experienced hazardous exposure from a spill, leak, explosion, or other occurrence. The licensed physician must determine whether a medical examination is needed.
- Provide an opportunity for a medical examination by a licensed physician whenever a worker develops signs or symptoms associated with a hazardous chemical to which he or she may have been exposed to in the laboratory.
- Establish medical surveillance for a worker as required by the particular standard when exposure monitoring reveals exposure levels routinely exceeding the OSHA action level or, in the absence of an action level, the PEL for an OSHA regulated substance.
- Provide the examining physician with the identity of the hazardous chemical(s) to which the individual may have been exposed, and the conditions under which the exposure may have occurred, including quantitative data, where available, and a description of the signs and symptoms of exposure the worker may be experiencing.
- Provide all medical examinations and consultations without cost to the worker, without loss of pay, and at a reasonable time and place.
- Ensure a copy of the examining physician's written opinion is provided to the exposed worker.
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