WorkCare provides and maintains a medical surveillance and drug testing employee risk assessment program for this client, an engineering and construction firm.

	Compliance Standards: All work is performed to OSHA and client standards. Applicable standards are 29 CFR 1910.120 and 29 CFR 1910.134. WorkCare credentials medical providers to standards of the NCQA. WorkCare is the custodian of records and retains over 8,000 medical exam records. All work is performed and/or supervised by board-certified occupational medicine physicians and meets the standards of Federal and state regulations.
	Medical Services Performed: WorkCare works with this client on a program that covers over 2,000 employees whose jobs range from construction laborers to engineers and supervisory and management staff. This program includes employees assigned to a project to remediate a large federal office building in Virginia and includes significant employee exposure to asbestos.   WorkCare has consulted with the client to develop an annual employee job task analysis and employee potential exposure assessment. This program includes a computer software program which tracks assessment results and computes applicable employee medical surveillance testing parameters. WorkCare’s physicians developed an annual employee survey form. The results of the employee surveys are tracked in the WorkCare management information system. WorkCare is also the custodian of records and provides occupational medicine consulting support services as requested.

Contract Successes: This contract allowed client to implement a standardized medical surveillance program throughout its workforce at a significant reduction in costs. WorkCare successfully designed a computer-based employee job task analysis system that assigns employees the correct medical surveillance examination based on actual work tasks and potential exposures in the workplace.