T. A. Lincoln to Colleagues on the OSHA Rule for Access to Employee Exposure and Medical Records (1980)

Letter from Corporate Medical Director T. A. Lincoln to company physicians about OSHA's rule giving access to employee exposure and medical records. It summarizes eleven points of the rule, recommends how to handle employee and designated-representative requests, and advises care in what is written in medical records. Attached are a draft record access form and a release authorization form, and a September 20, 1980 cover note is stapled at the end.

What the document holds

• Pages 1-5: Letter of September 4, 1980 from T. A. Lincoln, M.D. to 'Colleagues' on the OSHA access to employee exposure and medical records standard
• Pages 6-7: Draft Employee Medical/Exposure Record Access Form (blank)
• Page 8: Authorization for Release of Medical and Exposure Information (blank form)
• Page 9: Cover note of September 20, 1980 from T. A. Lincoln, M.D. to 'Colleagues' transmitting the attached review of the OSHA access standard

People and organizations

From T. A. Lincoln, M.D. (Corporate Medical Director) to Colleagues (Union Carbide plant physicians and medical staff (as the letter describes its audience)).

• Thomas A. Lincoln (author)
• Corporate Medical Department (its organization)
• Union Carbide Corporation (its organization)
• Law Department (named)
• Louisiana Chemical Association (named)
• NIOSH (named)
• OSHA (named)

Related pages

Pages on our site about what this document covers: NIOSH · OSHA.

About this copy

This is document UC-1693 of the Union Carbide documents, documents produced and used as evidence in asbestos lawsuits against Union Carbide, 9 pages. Production numbers BRC 0640 to BRC 0648. The same document is also document Union Carbide 564.