Does PIPEDA Apply To Employee Health Information?
The federal privacy law known as PIPEDA (Personal Information Privacy and Electronic Documents Act) was designed to protect consumer data, and does no…
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This category addresses Questions & Answers about Employee Health Testing services like Preplacement Medicals, and Medical Surveillance medicals (like Silica medicals, Lead Medicals, and the like). Readers, whether employer or employee, are welcome to contact us with any questions related to Occupational Health and employee health testing in Canada.
Occu-Med’s mission is to “create safer workplaces“. We believe that employee health testing protects employers and employees alike by ensuring that employees are medically fit to do specified jobs, without doing harm to themselves or others. It benefits everyone involved in employers and workers understand how occupational health medicals work.
The federal privacy law known as PIPEDA (Personal Information Privacy and Electronic Documents Act) was designed to protect consumer data, and does no…
Pre-placement Medicals are typically included as a condition of employment in job offers, where the employer makes the offer conditional on the employ…
A Pre-Employment Medical is a medical exam or health assessment of an employee, which can be used as part of the decision of whether to make a job off…