43 P.S. § 446 Medical Attendants and Nurses

• Library: Pennsylvania Statutes
• Edition: 2023
• Currency: Current through P.A. Acts 2023-27
• Year: 2023
• Citation: 43 P.S. § 446

Every employer carrying on any work in the prosecution of which persons are employed in compressed air shall:

(1) Employ one or more licensed physicians as medical officers who shall be present to render medical assistance at all necessary times at the place where such work is in progress and who shall perform such other duties as are imposed on them by this act.

(2) If the maximum air pressure in such work exceeds seventeen pounds employ one or more registered nurses or one or more competent persons, which persons shall be selected by the medical officer and be certified by him to be competent by actual experience to handle cases of compressed-air illness. The nurses...