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Requirements:
Roles and Responsibilities (5.1.7)

Chemical and General Safety Department

The Chemical and General Safety (CGS) Department will provide the Medical Department

• Current information about actual or potential work-related site hazards (chemical, radiological, physical, biological, or ergonomic)
• Employee job-task and hazard analysis information, including essential job functions
• Actual or potential work-site exposures of each employee based on industrial hygiene evaluations (refer to Chapter 5, "Industrial Hygiene").

Medical Department

The Medical Department will:

1. Attend the Operating Safety Committee and the Local Safety Committee, at least once per quarter
2. Participate annually in SLAC's counseling and health promotional program committee meeting
3. Attend the Chemical and General Safety Department staff meeting and provide updates on injury/illness cases
4. Determine the content of occupational medical surveillance exams and evaluations
5. Determine the content of the occupational medical surveillance exams and conduct worker health evaluations and medical surveillance, in accordance with current sound and acceptable medical practices and all pertinent statutory and regulatory requirements
6. Inform workers of the purpose, nature, and results of the medical evaluations and tests offered verbally and in writing documented in the worker's medical record
7. Monitor ill and injured SLAC employees to facilitate their rehabilitation and safe return to work and to minimize lost time and its associated costs
8. Place individuals under medical restrictions when health evaluations indicate that the worker should not perform certain job tasks. Notify the worker and management when employee work restrictions are imposed or removed.
9. Communicate the results of health evaluations to the ES&H Division (and management as necessary) to facilitate the mitigation of worksite hazards
10. Develop and maintain a record, containing any medical, health history, exposure history, and demographic data collected for occupational medicine purposes, for each employee for whom medical services are provided
11. Participate in the development and periodic review of medical emergency response procedures included in site emergency and disaster preparedness plans. The medical emergency responses must be integrated with nearby community emergency and disaster plans.
12. Manage SLAC's health and wellness program, including evaluation of worker health statistics and trends, and designing programs to manage preventable health and illness issues when evaluations demonstrate their cost effectiveness
13. Present to the ES&H Coordinating Council, on at least an annual basis, a report on the occupational medicine program, summarizing the key activities, statistics, findings, and recommendations from the topics listed above

Human Resources Department

The Human Resources Department will provide the Medical Department

• Notification of personnel actions resulting in a change of job functions
• Notifications of employee absence involving any injury or illness (both work-related and non-work-related) of more than five consecutive workdays (or an equivalent time period for those individuals on an alternative work schedule)
• Access to information from health, disability, and other insurance plans (de-identified as necessary) in order to facilitate this process

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