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Appendix E: Public- and Private-Sector Approaches to Workforce Health Protection
Appendix E: Public- and Private-Sector Approaches to Workforce Health Protection
Pages 319-328
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. Museums and other entities belonging to the Smithsonian Institution do not have their own health and safety staff; therefore, OSHEM provides centralized services in addition to its role of establishing policies and standards (Duval, 2013)
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. Organizationally, DOI has aligned most of its workforce health protection reporting structures at the departmental level, placing its Occupational Health and Medical Programs Division within the Office of Occupational Safety and Health.
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. The Office of Occupational Safety and Health provides guidance to the component agencies through the Occupational Medicine Handbook, which covers all of the occupational health issues in which the department is involved, including safety, industrial hygiene, and medical clearance.
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. Under Personnel and Readiness, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Clinical and Program Policy is responsible for occupational health programs outside of deployed theater, including standards and procedures that govern DoD clinical programs, clinical informatics, medical standards for accessions and separations, military public health, women's health issues, quality management, DoD health and fitness promotion, medical ethics, mental health policy, patient advocacy, graduate medical education programs, and patient safety (Cecchine et al., 2009; DoD, 2014a)
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To address its global operational scope, GE Energy created its traveler health program, aligning preproject planning, pretravel health assessment, wellness programs, eLearning tools, health incident planning, remote site medical services, and prevention activities. GE Energy spends significant time and resources on planning and assessment to ensure that it can protect the health and well-being of employees deployed to hazardous work environments.
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Today, P&G provides health services to its employees through 180 clinics in 46 countries, employing 489 full- and part-time occupational health nurses, physicians, and administrative personnel in its Global Medical program. The P&G Global Employee Health & Wellness Policy ensures that a workforce health framework is in place, using an audit and report process and a global medical scorecard to ensure compliance with corporate standards for all sites, consistent procedures and training, and compliance with all health-related laws and regulations.
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Since 1995, J&J has taken a fully integrated approach to employee health and wellness services in the United States and Puerto Rico, centralizing occupational medicine, disability management, benefit plan design, mental well-being, and wellness activities under a single umbrella. With the success of this model, J&J currently is working to centralize all global medical services under the corporate umbrella as well.
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Similar teams operate at the local level, bringing together occupational health physicians and/or nurses; site safety managers; and wellness, employee assistance, and industrial hygiene professionals (Isaac, 2013)
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2009. Foundation for integrating employee health activities for active duty personnel in the Department of Defense.
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2012. NASA occupational safety and health programs.
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