Pre-employment

Is there a pre-employment and follow up medical examination required ... 

Pre-employment medical for selection and establishment of base levels Working conditions in specific areas Employees routine medicals, exposure profiles Biological monitoring where appropriate... 

Pre-employment screening of potential workers for risk factors associated with occupational asthma is not viable from a legal/ethical stand or from a practical point of view. Newman-Taylor estimated that seven atopic individuals would have to be denied employment in order to eliminate one case of OA [81]. Since asthma is a complex disease, focus on one risk factor (e.g., atopy) will have little impact on prevention. Investigators have suggested that this can lead to a false sense of control with the opportunity for greater disease [82],... 

Pre-employment instruction and pre-employment physical examinations are of critical importance in most work situations involving hazardous chemicals. The former should make clear the hazards involved, the need to avoid exposure under normal working conditions, and the mechanisms by which exposure is limited. Furthermore employees should understand how and when to contain spills and how and when to evacuate the area around the spill. Locations and use of emergency equipment, showers, eye washes, and so on, should also be given, and the most important procedures should be posted in the work area. 

Comparison of the Positive Rates of Urine and Hair Analysis in a Side-by-Side Pre-Employment Study ... 

Pre-employment survey of utility company workers Median... 

NEWILL, C.A., EVANS, R. KHOURY, M.J. (1986) Pre-employment screening for allergy to laboratory animals epidemiologic evaluation of its potential usefulness. Journal of Occupational Medicine, 28,1158-1164. 

There should be pre-employment and periodic medical checks, and steps should be taken to see that no person with a disease in a communicable form, or with open lesions on the exposed surface of the body, is engaged in the manufacture of medicinal products. 

The personnel in the Program have baselines calculated from blood samples taken at pre-employment or following a long period of time in which they have not been exposed to cholinesterase inhibiting compounds. Subsequent values are then compared to these baseline values. A mild to moderate decrease (10-15%) for baseline in either red blood cell or plasma cholinesterase suggests exposure. A decrease greater than or equal to 30% in either plasma or red blood cell cholinesterase in indicative of an excessive exposure. 

Ayoub, M. M. (1983), Design of a Pre-Employment Screening Program, in Ergonomics of Workstation Design, T. O. Kvalseth, Ed., Butterworths, London. 

Chaffin, D. B., Herrin, G. D., KeyserUng, W. M., and Foulke, J. A. (1977), Pre-Employment Strength Testing, DHEW (NIOSH), Publication No. 77-163, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. 

Pre-employment Preparation Job Applicant Experience and Safety Expectations... 

The requirement of due diligence suggests that the company would be prudent to conduct pre-employment background investigations of all applicants, especially of those to whom it would assign compHance responsibilities. Background checks of applicants must be done in conformance with applicable federal and state laws, which impose certain limitations. One way to conduct these checks is to hire a responsible third party in this field. 

An employer is not required to administer a pre-employment drug test if the following conditions are met ... 

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