TEXT VERSION OF SLIDE:
Title: The following situations are not work related (1904.5 – Exceptions)
Type: Text Slide
Content:
- Personal tasks outside assigned working hours
- Personal grooming, self medication for non-work-related condition, or intentionally
self-inflicted
- Motor vehicle accident in parking lot/access road during commute
- Common cold or flu
- Mental illness, unless employee voluntarily provides a medical opinion from a physician or
licensed health care professional (PLHCP) having appropriate qualifications and experience that
affirms work-relatedness
Speaker Notes:
If an employee uses the employer’s sewing machine to make tents for the Girl Scouts after the shift
has ended, this is a personal task outside of assigned working hours and any injury that would
occur during that task is not work-related.
If an employee has a negative reaction to asthma medication for personal allergies, gets mascara in
the eye, or commits suicide – the cases are from self medication for a non-work-related condition,
personal grooming, or intentionally self-inflicted and are not work-related.
If an employee is injured in a motor vehicle accident going to or leaving work at the beginning or
end of the shift, or for a personal errand – the case is not work-related. However, if the employee
slips on the ice in the parking lot, or is in a car wreck doing business - the case is
work-related.
If an employee catches a cold or the flu, the case is not work-related.
Mental illness is work-related only if the employee voluntarily provides the employer with a
written opinion from a PLHCP with appropriate qualifications and experience that affirms a
work-related mental illness. The employer is under no responsibility to seek out mental illnesses.
In addition, the employer may also get a second opinion from another PLHCP and accept the opinion
of the most qualified PLHCP.
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