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My company has a bona fide medical dept ( very large chemical co). There is a md, nurses, etc. About every three years we have a medical checkup. Give blood, check bp, hearing check. We were required to send our vaccine card to the medical dept via the Mychart app. If you’re not vaccinated you must continue to wear your mask etc. of course they loosened up the rules but recently tightened them up with the surge. So far it’s not a hard requirement but we’ll see what happens with the new mandates. I did get the vaccine so I uploaded it to my file. I also reported to the medical dept when I had COVID and had to be cleared to return.

Interesting... Is the medical dept actually owned and operated by the company? Or is that contracted out to a private provider? 

My company has on-site health clinics at our larger facilities, but it's operated by an outside hospital group for privacy reasons. Tons of really good financial benefits by keeping it in-house, and it's convenient for employees, but they deliberately didn't operate it themselves due to those privacy reasons. 

Interesting... Is the medical dept actually owned and operated by the company? Or is that contracted out to a private provider?

My company has on-site health clinics at our larger facilities, but it's operated by an outside hospital group for privacy reasons. Tons of really good financial benefits by keeping it in-house, and it's convenient for employees, but they deliberately didn't operate it themselves due to those privacy reasons.

No, it's all done in-house.  Some of the nurses are contractors, some are company employees.  The MD is a company doctor.  

They do it because in our industry they have to monitor for health concerns, being that we make carcinogens and such.  We also get fitted for wearing a respirator yearly.  If there is an injury, either job related or non-job related you have to go through them for a release to work.  They also do a hearing check yearly.  

We also have the company sponsored medical clinic where you can get check-ups and other needs. It's a completely separate entity, but you have to be an employee of the company to get served.  They have real Dr.'s and nurses there as well.    It's really a good deal, ran by a group called Quad Med.  

They do it because in our industry they have to monitor for health concerns, being that we make carcinogens and such.  We also get fitted for wearing a respirator yearly.  If there is an injury, either job related or non-job related you have to go through them for a release to work.  They also do a hearing check yearly. 

Ahh that makes sense. We're a bunch of office workers ;-) 

Franklin County (where Columbus is) is adopting a policy similar. All Franklin County employees must provide two negative screens a week unless they are vaccinated.

That isn't similar, in my mind, versus requiring everyone to  be vaxxed.

Eh, it's not far off. I'm guessing that the employees will have to cover the cost of the screenings. The rapid tests (if that's what they require) are not cheap. 

they will put out a formal statement and perhaps an adder to the policy manual

then do nothing

So, how do you think the myriad companies with 100-1,000 employees handle this?

I'm pretty sure some won't do anything at all.

It probably depends on how OSHA writes up the regulations.