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Medical Exams
Can Employers Require COVID Testing of Returning Employees?
As employers reopen businesses across Florida, many are wondering if they can require a negative COVID-19 test before an employee is allowed back to work. As background, there are 2 types of COVID-19 testing – a test to determine the presence of COVID-19 virus (viral test) – and a test to determine if an employee......
18 Actions to Lower Workers’ Comp Rates for Florida Contractors
From our work with Florida construction companies and specialty trades in the last ten years, we have identified 18 proven action items that will shrink the risk of costly workers’ compensation claims and lower the mod rate of Florida contractors. Here are the top four actions that will make a difference: Improve the hiring process......
What is a Fitness for Duty form?
Recently, a client called to ask about an employee who had complained about a back and shoulder injury. The employee told his foreman that he did not feel that he was physically capable of performing his normal work duties as a construction laborer due to pain. He asserted that it was a workers’ compensation case......
OSHA Recordability for employee injuries – test your knowledge
The OSHA general recordability criteria are listed in Section 1904.7 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), and every non-exempted employer should carefully review the criteria so that the requirements are followed, but that injuries are not over reported. Over-reporting of employee injuries will create a higher injury rate, and may lead to a...
Required Post Offer Medical Examination leads to EEOC Lawsuit
A Southern Indiana manufacturing services company refused to hire or provide reasonable accommodations to a class of job applicants because of medical information it obtained during pre-employment medical examinations, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed on October 19, 2016. According to EEOC’s l...
CMV Drivers and the Medical Examiner National Registry
Carriers and CMV drivers should be knowledgeable about the creation of the National Registry of Certified Medical Examiners (National Registry), a new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) program. All commercial drivers whose current medical certificate expires on or after May 21, 2014, at expiration of that certificate must be exa...
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