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The language of occupational and employee health — from OSHA recordables and medical surveillance to certified EHRs, HL7 and FHIR. Clear, cross-linked definitions for the teams building healthier workplaces.
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A
Coordinating and tracking employee absences — leave requests, intermittent time off, eligibility and approvals.
American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
The leading professional society for occupational and environmental medicine, which publishes practice guidelines for the field.
Americans with Disabilities Act
The civil-rights law that prohibits disability discrimination and restricts employer medical examinations and inquiries.
American Industrial Hygiene Association
The leading professional society for industrial hygiene, which sets consensus standards and best practices for anticipating and controlling workplace exposures.
Audiometry
A hearing test that measures auditory thresholds, used to baseline and monitor workers in hearing conservation programs.
B
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard
OSHA's standard protecting workers from exposure to blood and other potentially infectious materials.
Measuring a substance or its metabolite in a worker's blood, urine or breath to gauge actual absorbed exposure.
Clinical measurements — such as blood pressure, cholesterol, glucose and BMI — collected to assess health and risk.
C
Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture
A standard format for clinical documents — such as a continuity-of-care document — exchanged between health systems.
Coordinating the care, communication and documentation for an injured or ill employee from intake to resolution.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The national public-health agency whose immunization schedules and infection-control guidance underpin employee and student health programs.
Clinical Decision Support
Tools that give clinicians timely, patient-specific guidance — alerts, reminders and protocols — at the point of care.
ONC Health IT Certification
Federal certification confirming that an EHR meets ONC's standards for functionality, interoperability and security.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The HHS agency that runs Medicare and Medicaid and administers the quality-reporting programs tied to certified EHR technology.
Chain of Custody
The documented, unbroken handling trail for a specimen that keeps drug-test and lab results legally defensible.
Programs to prevent, detect and respond to the spread of infectious disease within a workforce or campus.
Current Procedural Terminology
The standardized code set, maintained by the AMA, that describes medical procedures and services for billing.
D
Coordinated programs that help employees manage chronic conditions to improve health and reduce cost.
Department of Transportation
The federal department whose agencies regulate the medical fitness and drug/alcohol testing of safety-sensitive transportation workers.
The medical examination that certifies a commercial driver is physically fit to operate a commercial motor vehicle.
Screening employees for prohibited substances, whether under DOT rules or an employer's own non-DOT policy.
An ONC-Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) that tests and certifies health IT — and certifies Ozwell AI for occupational health.
E
Employee Assistance Program
A confidential workplace benefit that helps employees with personal, mental-health or work-related problems.
Electronic Clinical Quality Measure
A quality measure computed directly from structured EHR data to assess care processes and outcomes.
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
The federal agency that enforces anti-discrimination laws, including the ADA and GINA provisions that govern employee medical information.
Electronic Health Record
A digital, longitudinal record of a person's health information designed to be shared across care settings.
Electronic Lab Reporting
The automated, standards-based transmission of laboratory results from a lab into a health record or to public health.
The science of designing work to fit the worker, reducing musculoskeletal strain and injury.
The process of measuring or estimating worker exposure to a hazard to decide what controls and medical surveillance are needed.
A specific eye, mouth, mucous-membrane or skin contact with blood or infectious material that triggers medical follow-up.
F
Fitness-for-Duty Evaluation
A medical evaluation that determines whether an employee can safely perform the essential functions of their job.
Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources
HL7's modern, API-based standard for exchanging health data as modular, web-friendly resources.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
The DOT agency that regulates commercial motor carriers, including driver medical fitness and drug/alcohol testing.
Family and Medical Leave Act
The federal law that entitles eligible employees to unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying medical and family reasons.
H
Hazard Communication Standard
OSHA's standard requiring employers to inform and train workers about hazardous chemicals, aligned with the Globally Harmonized System.
Hearing Conservation Program
An OSHA-mandated program to prevent occupational hearing loss among workers exposed to high noise levels.
Department of Health and Human Services
The federal department that oversees U.S. public health, including the agencies that enforce HIPAA and certify health IT.
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
The federal law that sets national standards for protecting the privacy and security of personal health information.
Health Level Seven
A family of standards for exchanging clinical and administrative health data between systems.
Health Risk Assessment
A questionnaire-and-screening tool that gauges an individual's health risks to guide wellness and prevention.
I
International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision
The standardized diagnostic coding system used for billing, reporting and health statistics.
Industrial Hygiene
The science of anticipating, recognizing, evaluating and controlling workplace hazards that can cause illness or injury.
Immunization Information System
A confidential, population-based state registry that records immunization doses administered within its jurisdiction.
Recording, monitoring and enforcing the vaccinations required for an employee or student population.
The ability of different health-IT systems to exchange data and use it without special effort from the user.
M
Documented authorization that an employee is medically able to perform a specific task, wear required PPE, or take an assignment.
The systematic, ongoing assessment of employees exposed (or potentially exposed) to workplace hazards to detect early health effects.
Master Patient Index
A database that maintains one unique, accurate identity for each patient across all of an organization's systems.
Medical Review Officer
A licensed physician who reviews and verifies drug-test results, confirming legitimate medical explanations before reporting.
Mine Safety and Health Administration
The Department of Labor agency that regulates safety and health in the mining industry.
O
The medical specialty focused on the prevention and management of workplace injury and illness and on keeping workers healthy.
Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy / Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT
The HHS office that sets health-IT certification criteria and interoperability standards for electronic health records.
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
The federal agency under the U.S. Department of Labor that sets and enforces workplace safety and health standards.
The OSHA recordkeeping form on which employers log work-related injuries and illnesses, summarized annually on Form 300A.
A work-related injury or illness that meets OSHA's criteria for entry on the 300 Log.
Enterprise Health's occupational-health AI — the first to earn Drummond PDSI Risk certification.
P
Permissible Exposure Limit
The maximum legal exposure to a hazardous substance an employee may experience, set and enforced by OSHA.
Spirometry
A pulmonary function test that measures how much and how fast a person can breathe, used in respiratory surveillance.
Promoting Interoperability
The CMS program (formerly Meaningful Use) that rewards the meaningful use of certified EHR technology and data exchange.
Managing and measuring health outcomes across a defined group — such as an entire workforce — rather than one patient at a time.
Personal Protective Equipment
Equipment worn to minimize exposure to hazards — the last line of defense in the hierarchy of controls.
R
A procedure that verifies a tight-fitting respirator seals properly on a specific worker, required before use and annually.
OSHA's standard requiring a written program, medical evaluation and fit testing before employees use respirators.
The principle and laws giving workers the right to know about hazardous substances they may be exposed to at work.
Return-to-Work
The coordinated process of safely returning an employee to work after injury, illness or leave, often with temporary restrictions.
S
SNOMED Clinical Terms
A comprehensive clinical terminology used to encode diagnoses, findings and procedures in the health record.
System of Record
The authoritative single source for a given set of data — for workforce health, one governed record across every site.
T
Tuberculosis Screening
Testing for tuberculosis infection — by skin test (PPD) or blood test (IGRA) — common for health-care and at-risk workers.
A blood test that measures antibody levels to confirm immunity to a disease, often accepted in place of revaccination.
Threshold Limit Value
A recommended occupational exposure guideline published by the ACGIH, often stricter than OSHA's legal PEL.
Pre-travel risk assessment, vaccination and counseling that keep employees safe on international assignments.
W
An employer initiative that promotes healthy behaviors and helps prevent chronic disease among the workforce.
The clinical judgment of whether a workplace event or exposure caused or contributed to an injury or illness.
Workers' Compensation
The state-mandated insurance system that provides medical care and wage replacement to employees injured on the job.
A program that prevents and manages work-related injury and illness through ongoing screening, examination and early intervention.
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