Labels, Protective Equipment, Medical Equipment

Any standard promulgated under § 1206 shall prescribe the use of labels or other appropriate forms of warning as are necessary to ensure that employees are apprised of all hazards to which they are exposed, relevant symptoms and appropriate emergency treatment, and proper conditions and precautions of safe use or exposure.

(a)Where appropriate, such standards shall also prescribe suitable protective equipment and control or technological procedures to be used in connection with such COL 1/26/2024 DIV. 1 LABOR REGULATIONS CH. 1 DEPARTMENT OF LABOR hazards and shall provide for monitoring or measuring employee exposure at such locations and intervals, and in such manner as may be necessary for the protection of employees.

(b)In addition, where appropriate any such standard shall prescribe the type and frequency of medical examinations or other tests which shall be made available by the employer or at his cost, to employees exposed to such hazards in order to most effectively determine whether the health of such employees is adversely affected by such exposure.

(c)The results of such examinations or tests shall be furnished only to the Director, and, at the request of the employee to his physician.

(d)The Director, may by rule promulgated, after notice and an opportunity to be heard make appropriate modifications in the foregoing requirements relating to the use of labels or other forms of warning, monitoring or measuring and medical examinations, as may be warranted by experience, information, or medical technological developments acquired subsequent to the promulgation of the relevant standard.