Medical Legal Services
for Palo Alto, Fremont, Union City, and Newark
Where Can the Employer Turn For Help In Solving Problems?
We help area employers solve their occupational health problems. Expertise that is not immediately available through our staff can be secured for clients through our network of affiliations and contacts. We visit the employer's plant, so that our medical staff will see the kind of work that employees perform and gain a clear picture of the possible job-related hazards. In the event that a problem arises, our staff is ready to meet on short notice with management and, if requested, the employees. We will help formulate a solution to the problem, and educate all those concerned about the health implications. In particular, employers setting up a new plant or expanding an existing plant are invited to call us for a no-charge occupational health needs consultation.
We offer the following kinds of problem-solving services:
- Plant visits and on-site consultation.
- Technical consultation and problem solving by occupational health experts.
- Health hazard evaluations (in-depth studies of a particular problem.)
- Plant Walk-through and identification of occupational hazards.
- New and expanding plant services.
- SB 899 write- up (injury prevention plans).
- Assistance in conforming to making reasonable accommodation for qualified person with a disability.
Some of the occupational services that we can provide:
- Designing in-plant employee health services.
- Designing occupational health record systems.
- Designing occupational health information systems.
- Providing continuing education for plant medical and nursing personnel.
- Developing absenteeism monitoring programs.
- Conducting epidemiology investigations of occupational illnesses.
- Performing needs assessment on the employee population.
- Developing specific prevention-oriented programs.
- Trouble-shooting problem areas and designing programs for their solutions.
Rapid Reporting and Processing (Informed & Within the Law)
Providing excellent medical care is not enough in occupational medicine. Federal, state, and local regulations must be complied with and report deadlines must be met. Our reporting system ensures that within hours of seeing your employee, our staff will be making a preliminary report by telephone or on a short form. This will be followed by a final written report summarizing the findings that pertain to occupational performance and estimating the likely time off work and the level of impairment. Every attempt to communicate with the employer in placing the employee in a Temporary Alternate Work Program if available will be given. Supplemental reports and fitness-to-work evaluations are handled in the same expeditious manner.
Clerical and billing services: are provided by personnel trained in the administrative management of workers' compensation cases and supervised by knowledgeable administrators.
Our doors are always open to discuss the needs of your organization and procedures to meet those needs.
