[MCOH-EH] MCOH-EH Digest, Vol 250, Issue 101
Diane Shaw
diane.shaw at tuality.org
Thu Jun 18 14:38:38 PDT 2015
Providing them with a PAPR is the ideal, unfortunately these are only readily available in the ED dept. The employee has a right to document their religious belief according to our policy:
They must be the request to be excused from care involving the wearing of a N95 with their manager.
The manager should excuse the employee from the task, if possible, until the request can be reviewed by the Administrator.
A written determination of whether or not their request can be honored will be given by the manger as soon as possible and a copy will be sent to Human Resources.
If the request is denied and the employee does not agree with it, they can follow the Employee Fair Treatment Policy and pursue it that way.
Refusing to care for a patient in an emergency situation can lead to suspension and possible termination
We have not had any pursue this yet, but I do see it coming as facial hair is becoming more popular.
Diane M. Shaw, RN, BSN, CIC
Tuality Healthcare
Employee Health Services
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Hillsboro, OR 97123
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 12:09:04 +0000
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When then have to provide and instruct on use of PAPR's
Maryann Viereck RN,BS,CEN,COHN-S
Employee Health Coordinator
Cape Regional Medical Center
2 Stone Harbor Blvd
Cape May Court House, NJ 08210
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We have encountered new employees with beards who refuse to shave due to religious reasons. Has anyone experienced these issues and how do you address?
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In addition to offering the PAPR option; we try to talk people into shaving since the PAPRs are not always readily available or easy to get on the floors, don, doff and use in busy places like the ED. Yesterday we onboarded a large group of new UCLA House Staff; many of whom arrive with varieties of facial hair. We are working to bolster the letters that go out in advance encouraging them to shave before onboarding as the fit testing is done doing these large onboarding events and they cannot be fit tested with facial hair except a small moustache or goatee; something that does not touch the N 95 seal areas. Yesterday many ran and got shaving cream and razors and shaved in time. I personally spoke with a group of ED residents to explain how common active TB, measles, pertussis, chickenpox, etc. is in the populations seen her and they all quickly decided to change their minds and shave right away so we probably had 25 who shaved and 4 who opted for PAPRs yesterday, mostly psych re sidents. I do recall an OSHA letter years ago stating safety in their view trumped religious objections in the realm of respirators; don't have it handy but surely someone does.
Warner
T. Warner Hudson, MD FACOEM, FAAFP
Medical Director, Occupational and Employee Health UCLA Health System and Campus Office 310.825.9146 Fax 310.206.4585 Pager 800.233.7231 ID 27132 E-mail twhudson at mednet.ucla.edu Website www.ohs.uclahealth.org
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We have encountered new employees with beards who refuse to shave due to religious reasons. Has anyone experienced these issues and how do you address?
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