7 AAC 27.017 - Reporting of occupational disease and injury
(a) A health care
provider who attends to a person with a disease, injury, or other condition of
public health importance that is known or suspected to be a result of the
person's occupation or work activities shall report the disease, injury, or
other condition to the department. Diseases and injuries that are known or
suspected to be due to a person's occupation include
(1) Pneumoconiosis requiring hospitalization;
and
(2) work-related injuries
requiring hospitalization, including a thermal, electrical, or penetrating
injury and urgent care for amputation.
(b) To meet the reporting requirements of (a) of this section, a
health care provider shall submit a report to the department orally,
electronically, or on a department-provided form not later than five working
days after first discovering or suspecting the existence of the disease,
injury, or other condition. Each report must give the name, address, date of
birth, sex, ethnicity, and race of the person diagnosed as having the reported
disease, injury, or other condition and the name and address of the health care
provider reporting the disease, injury, or other condition.
(c) In this section,
(1) "hospitalization" means any admission to a health care
facility for treatment, excluding admission only for observation purposes; in
this paragraph, "health care facility" has the meaning given in
AS
18.07.011;
(2) "penetrating injury" does not include an injury from a needle
stick;
(3) "work activity"
(A) means a job that a person does using
physical or mental effort, for money or wages, as a volunteer, or for something
of value other than money or wages, including bartered reciprocation, work
experience, and on-the-job training;
(B) includes full- or part-time employment in the public or
private sector, self-employment, seasonal employment, apprenticeships, and
internships.
Notes
Authority:AS 18.05.010
AS 18.05.040
AS 18.15.355
AS 18.15.362
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