South Carolina Code of Regulations
Chapter 71 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, LICENSING AND REGULATION-DIVISION OF LABOR
Article 1 - OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH REGULATIONS
Subarticle 9 - RULES OF AGENCY PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE CONCERNING SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF LABOR, DIVISION OF OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH ACCESS TO EMPLOYEE MEDICAL RECORDS
Section 71-909 - Retention and Destruction of Records
Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 3, March 22, 2024
A. Consistent with SC/OSH record disposition procedures, personally identifiable employee medical information and list of coded direct personal identifiers shall be destroyed or returned to the original recordholder when no longer needed for the purposes for which they were obtained.
B. Personally identifiable employee medical information which is currently not being used actively but may be needed for future use shall be transferred to the SC/OSH Medical Records Officer. The SC/OSH Medical Records Officer shall conduct an annual review of all centrally-held information to determine which information is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was obtained.
