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...cur most often in the building construction, renovation, and installation trad...stablishes labor contracts, and deals with employer's liability and other tort liability claims involving workers.

...cur most often in the building construction, renovation, and installation trad...stablishes labor contracts, and deals with employer's liability and other tort liability claims involving workers.

... INFORMATION DATE 19891017 DESCRIPTION USDOL Program Highlights-Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records SUBJECT Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records U.S. Department of Labor Program Highlights Fact Sheet No. OSHA 89-29 ACCESS TO EMPLOYEE EXPOSURE AND MEDICAL RECORDS SCOPE-Employers in general industry, the maritime, and construction industries must provide records access to all employees exposed to toxic substances and harmful physical agents, their union representatives, health personnel, and OSHA. The rule does not require creation of any records, only preservation. Access means the right to examine and copy records ... ACCESS RULES-Records requests need not be in writing except where trade secrets are involved. Union and health professionals must have specific written consent to gain access to employees' personal medical records but may examine exposure records without such consent. However, they must state the specific record needed and the occupational health need for requesting the information. Health professionals include physicians, occupational health nurses, industrial hygienists, toxicologists, and epidemiologists who provide medical or other occupational health services to exposed employees. Employees have automatic access to their own exposure and medical records ... where a physician representing the employer believes that direct employee access to certain information in the record could be detrimental to the employee's health. However, they have access to exposure records of others when these exposures represent their past or present exposure, or exposures represent their past or present exposure, or exposure where an employee is being assigned or transferred. Employers must provide records promptly, generally within 15 working days. They must provide a date for release of the information and an explanation of the delays should it take longer to process the ...

...al industry, the maritime, and construction industries must provide records ac...heets highlighting U.S. Department of Labor programs. It is intended as a gene...

... both types of employers for paying Workers Comp benefits. STATUTORY EMPLOYERS: THE RULES OF THE GAME In a typical statutory employer case, an employee of a contractor seeks compensation for a job-related injury from the contractor's employer or principal. These situations occur most often in the building construction, renovation, and installation trades, although they can arise in other industries. The general contractor subcontracts all or part of the work to one or more subcontractors, but may still be liable for Workers Comp claims sustained by the subcontractor's employees. One key to ... liability is to decide whether the arrangement between the parties is consistent with customary practice industry practice or is simply a device to avoid the potential liabilities of being an employer. According to the Larson Law of Workers Compensation Paragraph 29.14: The purpose of this legislation was to protect employees of irresponsible and uninsured subcontractors by imposing ultimate liability on the presumably responsible principal contractor. It is the principal contractor who has it within his power, in choosing subcontractors, to pass upon their irresponsibility and insist upon appropriate protection for their workers. This doctrine allows ... . He claimed that he was injured because of the negligence of the power company in maintaining its premises. The power company had a detailed contract with the broker. It would notify the broker when it needed workers, and the broker, in turn, notified the union local to refer laborers to the broker. The claimant was sent to the steam plant, where he slipped while descending some steps alleged to be poorly illuminated. The claimant sued the broker to recover Compensation benefits, and brought a tort action against the power company ...

...deral Regulations [CFR] 1910), Construction (29 CFR 1926), Maritime Employment... if there is an OSHA standard dealing with the hazard, unless the employer kno...

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