Pre-Employment Screening

The first component of a Medical Surveillance Program is pre-employment screening. This is the testing that takes place before an employee begins work on the site.

Pre-employment screening has two major purposes:

• Determination of fitness for duty
  • A review of occupational and medical history
  • Physical examination
  • A test of one's ability to work while wearing protective equipment.
    • 29 CFR Part 1910.134 states that no employee should be assigned to a task that requires the use of a respirator unless it has been determined that the person is physically able to perform under such conditions.
• Collection of baseline data for future exposures
  • This screening exists to establish a level ("baseline") of data that can later "determine if exposures have adversely affected the worker."

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