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. Occupational health and safety professionals include occupational and environmental health nurses, occupational medicine physicians, industrial hygienists, safety professionals, and occupational health psychologists. Other related members of the multidisciplinary team are ergonomists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, human resource specialists, and industrial/organizational psychologists.

Occupational health and safety professionals are persons who have been accredited through appropriate procedures to practice a profession related to occupational health or who provide occupational health services according to the provision of relevant regulations.

There are currently no specific OSHA standards for occupational health professionals.

OSHA Standards

This section highlights OSHA general industry standards regulating toxic and hazardous substances that have specific medical surveillance or services requirements.

Note: Twenty-five states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands have OSHA-approved State Plans and have adopted their own standards and enforcement policies. For the most part, these States adopt standards that are identical to Federal OSHA. However, some States have adopted different standards applicable to this topic or may have different enforcement policies.

General Industry (29 CFR 1910)

• 1910.120, Hazardous waste operations and emergency response [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.134, Respiratory protection [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.178, Powered industrial trucks [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1001, Asbestos [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1003, 13 Carcinogens (4-Nitrobiphenyl, etc.). Applies to:
  
  
• 1910.1004, alpha-Naphthylamine
  
  
• 1910.1006, Methyl chloromethyl ether 
  
  
• 1910.1007, 3,3'Dichlorobenzidiene (and its salts) 
  
  
• 1910.1008, bis-Chloromethyl ether 
  
  
• 1910.1009, beta-Naphthylamine 
  
  
• 1910.1010, Benzidine
  
  
• 1910.1011, 4-Aminodiphenyl
  
  
• 1910.1012, Ethyleneimine 
  
  
• 1910.1013, beta-Propiolactone 
  
  
• 1910.1014, 2-Acetylaminofluroene
  
  
• 1910.1015, 4-Dimethylaminoazobenzene 
  
  
• 1910.1016, N-Nitrosodimethylamine
  
  
• 1910.1017, Vinyl chloride
  
  
• 1910.1018, Inorganic arsenic [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1025, Lead [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1027, Cadmium [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1028, Benzene [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1029, Coke oven emissions
  
  
• 1910.1030, Bloodborne pathogens [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1043, Cotton dust [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1044, 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane
  
  
• 1910.1045, Acrylonitrile
  
  
• 1910.1047, Ethylene oxide [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1048, Formaldehyde [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1050, Methylenedianiline
  
  
• 1910.1051, 1,3 Butadiene [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1052, Methylene chloride [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1200, Hazard communication [related topic page]
  
  
• 1910.1450, Occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals in laboratories

Selecting Occupational Health Professionals

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. The following references provide information about selecting occupational health professionals.

• The Occupational Health Professional's Services and Qualifications: Questions and Answers. OSHA Publication 3160, (Revised 1999). Also available as a 152 KB PDF, 37 pages. Provides guidance and serves as a resource for those considering the selection of a qualified health care professional to participate in workplace safety and health activities.
  
  
• Small Business Handbook. OSHA Publication 2209-02R, (2005). Also available as a 260 KB PDF, 56 pages.
  • Medical Services and First Aid

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