29 CFR 1910 regulations concerning storing employee prescription medication contained by an occupational first aid tools?
I have an member of staff who is asthmatic, and he's put a back-up inhaler in one of our First-Aid kits here at work, and I'm not comfortable near it since I can't find any regulations in regards to the legalities of it's storage near. It's not narcotic, and the prescription is well labeled for what it is and for who. It'll simply be my luck that if there IS a regulation against it, OSHA will show up and find it.
I've looked through the CFR 1910 beneath everything I can think of, and I can't seem to be to find any regulations concerning an employee storing his/her own prescription medication in a workplace First-Aid utensils.
Anyone got any thinking on where else I might further look for information?
Answer:
If its in the communal tools I would just let somebody know him that for insurance purposes you cannot allow him to place prescription medication of any kind within a public area, nor can you guarantee him that someone else will not use it, infect it beside their germs and you cannot even insure that it will be there when he looks for it. Contact your insurance for actual protocol. You may hold to store an emergency supply for him somewhere where no one else have access- but for day to time medicines I'm pretty sure they should be kept at his desk or on his character
did i just nick too many tylenol?
no but i would go away him alone he needs it and if he is a well-mannered worker it will either cause offence or hurt his feelingsare you put to sleep during a knees tap?
Contact any OSHA directly or your state health department. individually, I don't see why he can't keep the back-up inhaler in his desk or own work space.It's merely plain illegal to save presecription medications anywhere contained by public. They are guarded heavily in pharmacy because of HIPAA regulations and other law. If I were you, I would report him about HIPAA regulations and inform him that his pet name, prescription number, etc are all on that and he desires to be responsible with his private information. You could be sued if someone abused the info explicitly kept in that utensils. He can just keep hold of it in his trunk and gain it if he 'forgets" it, or somewhere in the workplace specifically LOCKED and HIS. It CANNOT be in a publicly accessable place. It's the ruling...
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