Description
Apply knowledge of occupational and preventive medicine to protect and promote worker health, preventing and managing work-related illness and injury. Provide population-based workplace programs and clinical services, including exposure assessment, surveillance, risk reduction, fitness-for-duty, and disability prevention.
- • Train clinicians, safety staff, and employees on occupational health and safety practices.
- • Obtain and document comprehensive occupational and exposure histories.
- • Prepare workplace health reports with exposure analyses, control options, and recommendations.
- • Supervise or coordinate occupational health clinic staff and allied professionals.
- • Conduct pre-placement, periodic, fit-for-duty, and return-to-work evaluations; determine restrictions and accommodations.
- • Evaluate the effectiveness of engineering controls, PPE, medical surveillance, and other interventions.
- • Identify worker groups at elevated risk for specific occupational illnesses or injuries.
- • Design and manage medical surveillance programs and screening protocols to detect work-related health risks.
- • Direct occupational health education on hazard communication, ergonomics, hearing conservation, respiratory protection, and immunizations.
- • Conduct epidemiologic investigations of workplace exposures, injury patterns, and disease clusters.
- • Develop interventions addressing ergonomic risks, heat stress, substance use, fatigue, and other work-related factors.
- • Lead prevention programs in areas such as industrial hygiene collaboration, hazardous materials, infectious disease in workplaces, and environmental exposures.
- • Design, implement, and evaluate occupational health service delivery for diverse worksites and shifts.
- • Coordinate with employers, HR, safety, legal, workers' compensation, and public agencies to improve worker health and regulatory compliance.
- • Communicate occupational health risks and recommendations - through reports, consultations, and presentations - to employees, employers, clinicians, and regulatory authorities.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
