Occupational Health Tests – Albuquerque, NM

Local information for Albuquerque Occupational Testing

Albuquerque occupational health plans are crucial for employers to protect their workers from accidents and injuries and to remain compliant with workplace occupational health laws. Employees are entitled to a workplace free of recognizable hazards, and it’s the employer’s responsibility to develop workplace occupational health laws to ensure employees have access to safe and properly working equipment, the right training for the job, personal protective equipment, and vaccines to preventable diseases they may have exposure to in the workplace. In Albuquerque, occupational health services also include respiratory health screening, vision and hearing testing, titer testing (antibody testing), physical examinations, TB skin testing, and respirator fit testing.

Albuquerque occupational health includes the New Mexico State Plan, which was initially approved in 1975. Part of the New Mexico Environment Department, The New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau (OSHB) applies to all private-sector workplaces, with some exceptions that include maritime workers and contract workers with the United States Postal Service (USPS). The plan also applies to local and state government employers but not federal government employers. These employees are covered by federal OSHA regulations.

Albuquerque occupational health regulations are a part of New Mexico OSHA (NM OSHA), which has adopted all federal OSHA regulations, with some additional standards.