Making House Calls: Ensuring OSHA Compliance through Mobile Spirometry

About the Program

Category: Personnel Management, Employment and Training (Best in Category)

Year: 2018

The continuous challenge of meeting routine testing requirements of Henrico County Sheriff’s Office employees in the Respiratory Surveillance program led Employee Health Services (EHS) to take a creative approach to an established process. Reporting to EHS during their shift for testing was one of many reasons contributing to inconsistent testing of employees each year resulting in lack of compliance with OSHA standards. Mobile spirometry became EHS’ “house call” to help cure this issue in the Sheriff’s Office. Providing on-site testing at the jail proved to be an efficient, time-saving solution to a compliance issue and resulted in additional benefits for both departments.