The braces clearly continue to be recommended by medical practitioners for people with wrist problems. But they are not preventive, not protective. They come in after you've had a problem, so they are a medical treatment, really, not protective equipment. So I don't recommend them as protective equipment. I don't see them as protective equipment in the proposal.
Some readers are concerned that the draft gives too much authority to medical providers.
There is a fear that some medical practitioners will simply prescribe rest for ergonomic-related problems, take the employee out of work, and cause productivity problems. I think we do need to talk this out - the provision of having to accept the medical provider's recommendation. But in the proposal as it exists now, the medical provider is one chosen by the employer - not one of the employee's choosing. So the employer has some obligation to educate the medical professionals about the requirements of a particular job, and the reasonable expectations from doing that job. I'd encourage people to allow the doctors to visit before they have a problem and get a sense of what the workplace requires.