Because of this commitment to safety, the university will provide, at not cost to employees, a medical monitoring program designed to provide for safe job placement of employees, satisfactory maintenance of employee health, and to ascertain the effectiveness of hazard control methods. Failure to comply with this policy may cause the university to incur unnecessary liability. The purpose for performing medical monitoring of employees is to detect physiological changes in an employee, that may be due to exposures to hazardous levels of physical, chemical or radioactive stresses the employee may experience on the job. Supervisors will make every effort to minimize the occupational exposure of employees to hazardous environmental stresses, by utilizing engineering and administrative controls on processes. Medical monitoring of employees is also used to measure the effectiveness of engineering and administrative controls.
Biological monitoring is a part of the medical monitoring program.
Biological monitoring can provide a reasonable indication of exposures to hazardous environmental stresses the employee might encounter on the job. The medical monitoring program has several specific objectives. Disabled persons will be assessed on a case by case basis to determine whether workplace conditions or exposure could be modified to accommodate their disability. The examining physician will make recommendations on disability accommodations. B. Detect exposure-related adverse health effects at an early and hopefully reversible stage so that occupational diseases can be prevented, and proper medical care can be rendered, if necessary.