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The goal of a multidisciplinary occupational health and safety team is to design,
implement, and evaluate a comprehensive health and safety program that will maintain and
enhance health, improve safety, and increase productivity. Such programs often provide
similar results for the families of workers, with resultant financial and other benefits
for the corporation.
Related Safety and Health Topics
The fact that there are a number of different capabilities present among health and safety
professionals may pose some difficulties for management in defining and selecting the
specific professionals required. OSHA has prepared a summary of the qualifications of the
different health and safety professionals, listed typical services provided, and also
delineated which OSHA standards specifically require medical surveillance or services.
The Occupational Health Professional's Service and Qualifications: Questions and
Answers. OSHA Publication 3160 (1999), 155KB PDF, 37 pages.
The OSHA Training Institute, Small Business Training Program, also has
sections of this document available below, as well as PDF files of Lecture Overheads
(1.63 MB, 22 pages) and
Student Handouts (204 KB, 7 pages).
The Occupational and Environmental Medicine department at Duke University maintains an Occupational
and Environmental Medicine World Wide Web Resource Index that provides direct links to
numerous occupational health organizations. These include United States Federal Government
Agencies, United States non-government agencies and organizations, and international
government and private agencies. The editors enhance the value of the index by noting the
specific links that are new or that they rate "really useful."
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