OSHA Compliance

IFEHC has an OSHA Compliance Officer. The designated individual is its Medical Director. The qualifications of the current OSHA Compliance Officer are that he completed a residency in Occupational & Environmental Medicine (OEM), is Board Certified in this subspecialty, and completed a 30-hour training class for supervisors on August 16, 2020. Please direct any questions or concerns to the OSHA Compliance Officer (OSHA@ifehc.com). Written or verbal communications can also be done using the contact information listed in the webpage's header. 

All employees are expected to complete training successfully within a timely manner, as defined by contract. This training is given by IFEHC's OSHA Compliance Officer. All employees must pass on a first attempt a final examination of labor law and OSHA administered by IFEHC. Failure to complete training in a timely manner or to pass the final examination on the first attempt is grounds for instant dismissal.

IFEHC's actual labor law & OSHA examination consists of 75 multiple choice questions for which employees are given 100 minutes. To help employees study for IFEHC's final examination on labor law and OSHA, IFEHC provides a practice examination. It is similar in content and difficulty to the actual examination. However, questions are NOT identical. The estimated pass level for this practice examination is 59%.

This document serves as an addendum to Document #13: IFEHC’s Respiratory Protection Program. It assesses the risks that employees face, the engineering and administrative controls in place, and the personal protection equipment (PPE) available in light of current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines. In brief; when exposure to examinees is anticipated, employees are directed to wear surgical masks and use face shields.

As indicated in the respiratory hazard evaluation; IFEHC's medical director has determined that the engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment (PPE) available provide employees a substantially below average risk compared with employees in the same industry (i.e., healthcare) and a below average risk compared with employees in all industries that are currently working. This document summarizes provisions in place to protect its employees, its patients, and the public.

The objective of the Idaho Falls Employment Health Clinic’s (IFEHC’s) Bloodborne Pathogen Exposure Control Plan is to comply with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, 29 CFR 1910.1030, and to eliminate or minimize employee occupational exposure to blood, certain other body fluids, or other potentially infectious materials.

The exposure will depend somewhat on the vision and mission scope being served.
For Department of Transportation (DOT)-Commercial Driver's License (CDL) medical cards for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operators (specifically truck and bus drivers), the main specimen is urine. For the free clinic, specimens can potentially include blood and urine.

Please note that IFEHC's OSHA Compliance Officer is making tremendous efforts to update this policy as IFEHC's technical capabilities expand.

OSHA has a standard on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), 29 CFR 1910.132. All employers are required to provide appropriately-fitting, functional PPE pertinent to the essential duties of the job as well as appropriate training on how to use safely. This document provides details regarding the legislative background of the standard, hazard assessment and PPE selection, PPE provision, and personnel training.

OSHA's General Duty Clause is a catch-all intended to address safety risks not covered elsewhere in the OSHA Act of 1970.  To this effect, it states that "each employer--/shall furnish to each of his employees employment and a place of  employment which are free from recognized hazards that are causing or  are likely to cause death or serious physical harm to his employees" (29 USC 654-a-1). This document outlines IFEHC's provisions in place to address the General Duty Clause.

Each workplace poses unique hazards and risks. You can minimize your level of risk exposure by thoroughly understanding the four scopes of our vision and mission and your exact role on the team. Your exact role entails understanding both what is within your job description and what falls outside your job description. Those four scopes are the following:
1 - Department of Transportation (DOT)-Commercial Driver's License (CDL) medical cards for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operators (specifically truck and bus drivers)
2 - Free Clinic
3 - Paid Internship
4 - Consumer Advocacy

Per our HAZMAT program, we keep Safety Data Sheets (SDS) of all chemicals. These are accessible online and in print copy at IFEHC's main office.

IFEHC's OSHA Compliance Officer anticipates the HAZMAT program being applicable during the following two scopes of IFEHC's vision and mission:
1 - Department of Transportation (DOT)-Commercial Driver's License (CDL) medical cards for commercial motor vehicle (CMV) operators (specifically truck and bus drivers)
2 - Free Clinic