Far from eliminating workplace harassment, telecommuting has only caused it to morph into digital forms. As a result, labs and other employers need to tweak their harassment policies to deal with the … [Read more...]
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Model Lab Workplace Vaccine Passport Policy
September 8, 2021
Although courts have yet to weigh in on the issue, guidelines from the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and other regulatory agencies indicate that employers may implement vaccine passports … [Read more...]
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Tool: Model COVID-19 Workplace Hazard Assessment Policy
June 30, 2021
Among other things, the new OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requires labs and other covered employers to conduct a workplace hazard assessment to identify COVID-19 hazards. Here’s a Model … [Read more...]
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Can Employees Who Wrongly Flunk Drug/Alcohol Test Sue the Testing Lab for Medical Malpractice?
June 28, 2021
In addition to potentially fatal misdiagnoses and erroneous treatment decisions, mistakes during the specimen collection and testing process can expose your lab to risk of liability under state … [Read more...]
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Model Lab Employee Remote Monitoring of Telecommuters Policy
May 26, 2021
Letting employees telecommute poses significant operational and management challenges to labs, not the least of which is ensuring that employees are actually doing their jobs and meeting expected … [Read more...]
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Who Has OSHA Responsibility for the Health & Safety of a Temp?
May 1, 2021
What are your OSHA duties to temporary workers (“temps”) whom you hire from a temp agency to work at your lab? Stated differently, are you or the temp agency responsible for the temp’s health and … [Read more...]
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Haz Com and the OSHA Rules for Electronic SDS Systems
March 24, 2021
When the OSHA Hazard Communication (Hazcom) standard was first written, what were then called Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) (and which are now called Safety Data Sheets (SDS) were kept almost … [Read more...]
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Model Lab Enhanced Cleaning and Disinfection Policy
February 25, 2021
Complying with the usual CLIA, accreditation and other hygiene standards and requirements may not be adequate to protect workers and others present at your lab facilities against risk of COVID-19 … [Read more...]
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Model Social Distancing Policy
February 7, 2021
As the pandemic drags on, labs and other essential businesses that remain open must be scrupulous to ensure employees maintain social distancing both at and away from the workplace. Here’s a Model … [Read more...]
Tool: Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination Policy
January 14, 2021
It behooves you to ensure that lab workers get vaccinated against COVID-19 to protect not only themselves but also co-workers, patients and others at your facility. But what if workers neglect or just … [Read more...]
