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Departments must provide all employees who work with hazardous chemicals an opportunity to
receive medical attention, including any follow-up examinations which the examining physician
determines to be necessary, under the following circumstances:
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Whenever an employee develops signs or symptoms associated with a hazardous
chemical to which the employee may have been exposed in the laboratory, the employee
must be provided an opportunity to receive an appropriate examination.
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Where exposure monitoring reveals an exposure level routinely above the action level (or in
the absence of an action level, the PEL) for an OSHA regulated substance for which there
are exposure monitoring and medical surveillance requirements, medical surveillance shall
be established for the affected employee as prescribed by the particular standard. |
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Whenever an event takes place in the work area such as a spill, leak, explosion or other
occurrence resulting in the likelihood of a hazardous exposure, the affected employee shall
be provided an opportunity for a medical consultation.
Such consultations shall be for the
purpose of determining the need for a medical examination. |
