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The Office of Component Services & Workforce Health Protection

Overview

The Component Services & Workforce Health Protection office provides professional medical input and oversight for the Department’s occupational health, safety, and medical activities. Component Services assists in supporting scientifically-based and regulatory-compliant occupational health and safety standards and practices that are applied consistently across the Department. This office is also responsible for coordinating with Departmental management and operations to establish a comprehensive, standardized medical services policy to provide oversight of all medical services provided by or on behalf of the Department. This office leads or assists in the development of policies, standards, requirements, and metrics for fitness-for-duty programs, drug testing, health screening and monitoring, health promotion and management, pre-placement evaluations, immunizations, and deployment physicals.

Organization

The Component Services & Workforce Health Protection office is comprised of the following three divisions:

Occupational Health and Medicine

• develops strategy, policy, and requirements for the medical aspects of a Department-wide occupational health and safety program
• assists the Department’s human capital personnel in assessing position descriptions and physical evaluation programs (pre-placement, fitness for duty, return to work, etc.)
• performs post incident analysis
• works with programs under the Federal Employment Compensation Act to help improve return-to-work programs and facilitate evaluation and treatment activities within the Department of Labor guidelines and limitations

Operational and Emergency Medicine

• provides professional oversight of medical services provided by or on behalf of the Department, including remotely deployed personnel ranging from border agents in the Southwest desert to the Department’s aviation personnel engaged in counter-smuggling operations throughout the hemisphere and humanitarian rescue of migrants who face dangerous conditions attempting to enter the country

Workforce Health Protection & Wellness

• integrates efforts toward workforce health protection, including wellness and prevention programs. Programs include wellness newsletters, travel medicine and deployment health guidelines and policies, health protection guidelines in dangerous work environments, facilitated health screening programs, and mechanisms to support a physical fitness culture within the Department

This page was last reviewed/modified on March 12, 2008.