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Relationships with official agencies other than the employer .................................................... 25
Relationships with the public/whistleblowing .................................................................................. 25
Relationships with the media .................................................................................................................. 26
The occupational health evidence base .............................................................................................. 27
Guidelines, protocols and audit.............................................................................................................. 28
Artificial Intelligence (AI) ........................................................................................................................... 28
Occupational health business practice ................................................................................................ 30
Corporate values and ethical codes ...................................................................................................... 30
Self-employed or subcontracted professionals................................................................................ 31
Advertising...................................................................................................................................................... 31
Competence ................................................................................................................................................... 32
Competitive tender ..................................................................................................................................... 32
Transfer of services ...................................................................................................................................... 33
Resourcing ...................................................................................................................................................... 33
Contractual terms ........................................................................................................................................ 34
3. Information .....................................................................................................................35
Confidentiality ............................................................................................................................................... 35
Data Protection ............................................................................................................................................. 36
Standards in data protection – staff and information governance........................................... 38
Information security .................................................................................................................................... 38
Occupational Health records, Security, Retention and Transfer ................................................ 38
Standards of Occupational Health Clinical Records ....................................................................... 38
Security of Records...................................................................................................................................... 40
Paper records................................................................................................................................................. 40
Electronic records ........................................................................................................................................ 41
Access rights and audit trails of records ............................................................................................. 42
Retention, Deletion and Destruction of records .............................................................................. 42
Retention of records – Health Record.................................................................................................. 42
Retention of records – Occupational Health Clinical Record ...................................................... 42
Request to delete records ........................................................................................................................ 43
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