By supplementing the treatment primary care physicians and specialists provide to patients, our specialty offers particular insight into how job tasks and work environments impact health. Specifically, we help:

• Implement changes to job tasks and the environment to reduce hazardous exposures.
• Address concerns patients express related to toxins, chemicals, and other everyday exposures as wide ranging as mercury in fish to mold in the basement.

Services:
Environmental Exposures: Assessment and Management

• Lead
• Mercury
• Arsenic
• Occupational asthma (clinical assessment of environmental causes of new onset and exacerbations, as well as home and workplace risk assessments)
• Mold and building-related illnesses, home and workplace assessments
• Asbestos surveillance exams

Indoor Air Quality Issues

• Pollutants
• Radon
• Mold exposure home or workplace
• Respiratory irritants
• Carbon monoxide

Other Work Environment/Exposure Assessments

• Repetitive strain and work-related injuries
• Pesticide exposure
• World Trade Center-9/11 health issues
• Reproductive and infertility concerns in regards to exposures and chemicals

Toxicity Concerns from Consumer Items

• Cell/smart phones
• Toys
• Food/water exposures
• Cleaning agents

Other Work/Home Evaluations and Assessments

• Assessing Return-to-Work readiness after injury/illness
• Pre-employment, Fitness for Duty, and commercial driver evaluations
• Jobsite evaluations for health and safety (with company consent)
• Onsite home evaluations for potential harmful exposures
• Illness and injuries from job tasks or work environments

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