Occupational Health

Mission:

The Occupational Health Service contributes to a safe and healthful work environment through programs aimed at reducing and eliminating work-related hazards and enhancing health promotion. Our goal is to promote, maintain, and restore the physical and psychosocial well-being of workers in order to enhance optimal functioning in the workplace. Focus is to protect the workers from hazards that may occur as a result of the work experience.

Services:

• Screening and in-processing of Active Duty personnel, DAC, and NAF employees and some contract employees.
• Perform inventory of chemical, biological, and physicals hazards in the workplace.
• Provide job related medical surveillance.
• Perform pre-placement, periodic, return to work, termination, and fitness for duty exams.
• Evaluate occupational illnesses and injuries.
• Perform occupational vision screenings.
• Provide health education and counseling.
• Conduct work related pregnancy surveillance assessments.
• Perform work site evaluation.
• Provide management of blood and body fluid post exposure surveillance.
• Participate in case management of workers' compensation claims.

We support appropriate personal, protection programs:     

• Safety glasses
• Safety shoes
• Hearing Protection
• Respiratory Protection

You may be required to have immunizations or specific tests such as the following:

• Visual screening
• Audiometric testing
• Pulmonary Function Test
• Chest X-ray
• Lab work
• EKG

What you need to do when your employee is injured