Technical Bulletin No. 0350: An Assessment of Health-related Medical Record Systems for Use in the Pulp and Paper Industry

This technical bulletin is an assembly of information on (a) identified need for employee health record keeping flowing from existing regulations, (b) the elements of such a system, and (c) commercially available systems and services to serve these record keeping needs. The material was assembled from information gained from (a) experience in the chemical industry where such systems are in extensive use and (b) a comprehensive coverage of the systems commercially available or that might be developed. Based on (a) the already required health record keeping requirements and an anticipated expansion of such needs and (b) what are currently broadly conceived to be desirable segments of a company health effects data record keeping system, it was concluded that a computer based system was the logical approach.