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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.
The Component Services & Workforce Health Protection office is comprised of the following three divisions:
Occupational Health and Medicine
Operational and Emergency Medicine
Workforce Health Protection & Wellness
This page was last reviewed/modified on October 10, 2008.