Medical Center staff and facilities provide a complete program of occupational medicine and environmental health

services to MSFC employees. Occupational medicine services include emergency and therapeutic services, preventive and therapeutic medicine, and ambulance services. Preventive medicine, available to all MSFC employees and certain contractor personnel, includes annual voluntary physical examinations and mandatory monitoring examinations for personnel exposed to potential environmental hazards on the job. Mandatory examinations are provided to employees who work in a variety of environments and with identified potential hazards, such as heavy equipment operators, chemical handlers, asbestos abatement, radiation, lasers, and respirator wearers.

As an ongoing preventive medicine service, the Medical Center conducts a special center wide screening program for hypertension. The Medical Center supports immunization requirements for worldwide travel, and provides an annual voluntary immunization program for influenza.

Under the Environmental Health effort of the Medical Center , industrial hygiene specialists provide site visits to all center locations to evaluate the work environment for possible health hazards on a minimum annual basis. Areas of concern in this arena include: hearing conservation, confined space entry, radioactive operations, laser operations, hazard communication (employees' right-to-know what chemicals are in their work environment), blood borne pathogens, ergonomics, proper use of chemicals in the laboratory, and respiratory protection.

Hours of operation: 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Onsite ambulance: 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ; available from offsite at all other times. For more information call 4-2390.

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