Other clinical services for
UI employees

The program is at no cost to employees A person certified by the Council of Accreditation in Occupational Hearing Conservation performs audiometric tests. Within 6 months of an employee’s first exposure at or above the action level, the employer shall establish a valid baseline audiogram against which subsequent audiograms can be compared. Testing to establish a baseline audiogram shall be preceded by at least 14 hours without exposure to workplace noise. Hearing protectors may be used as a substitute for the requirement that baseline audiograms be preceded by 14 hours without exposure to workplace noise. Annual audiograms shall be compared to that employee’s baseline audiogram to determine if the audiogram is valid and if a standard threshold shift has occurred.

Pulmonary function testing (PFT's)
To establish baseline function for new employees requiring respirator masks and to identify job applicants with preexisting pulmonary damage. This is a respiratory surveillance program, designed to detect whether excessive exposure is occurring despite the control procedures in place.

A detailed health history, with emphasis on smoking patterns, previous lung disease, and current respiratory symptoms is given to the employees to complete. A comprehensive employment history, which includes potential occupational exposures to pulmonary hazards, respirator usage, potential hobbies, and recreation activities, is one at baseline. A detailed respiratory questionnaire is given if employees wear a respirator.

Zoonosis ~ Q fever
Persons working with goats, sheep, cattle, or pigs and exposed to airborne concentrations of placenta, birth products and fluids, mammary tissues, dried dusts or manure, need to have samples drawn yearly.

Rabies

• Performed on employees with prior vaccination for rabies and have work related exposures.
• Rabies titer samples should be drawn on employees that work with: non vaccinated dogs, cats, skunks; and persons working with specimens from a rabid animal. This blood test is performed after initial vaccination series and every other year thereafter.

Measles, Hepatitis A, and biennual TB skin testing is performed on primate-exposed staff members.

Herpes B simian virus exposure
Monkey bite, scratch, blood or saliva. Old World monkeys (macaques, rhesus, cynomolgus and possibly others) can transmit herpes virus SIMIAE (b virus) through bites, scratches that penetrate the skin, and secretions splashed into the mucous membranes of humans. This virus, a close relative of the herpes simplex virus found in humans, is enzoonotic in these monkeys.