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The four programs include:

1. Energy Employees Occupational illness compensation program 2. Federal Black Lung Program 3. Federal Employee's Compensation Act (FECA) Program 4. Longshore and Harbor Worker's Compensation Program

Energy employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program

Department of energy, its contractors and subcontractors or to certain survivors of such individuals, and to certain benefeciaries of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. The OWCP is responsible for adjudicating and administering claims filled by employees or former employees or certain qualified survivors.

Note.

Comprohensive records of all vaccinations adninistered and any accidental exposure incidences (e.g. needle sticks) must be retained for 20 years.

Federal black lung program

Monthy benefit checks are sent to coal miners (or their eligible surviving dependents) who are totally disabled by pneumoconiosis (black lung disease) arising from their employment in or aroud the nation's coal mines.

Other Federal programs include:

Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA) 2. Merchant Marine Act (Jones Act)

Note:

Federal agencies reimburse FECA for worker's compensation expenses through an annual budget chargeback process, which transfers funds from a responsible federal agency's budget (e.g. U.S. Postal Service) to the DFEC.

Federal employment Liability Act

The Federal Employment Liability Act (FELA) is no a worker's compensation statue, but it provides railroad employees with protection from employer negigence, and makes railroads engaged in interstate commerce liable for injuries to employees if the railroad was negligent.

Federal Emplyee's Compensation Act Program

The OWCP's Division of Federal Employee's Compensation (DFEC) processes new claims for benefits and manages ongoing cases, pays medical expenses and compensation benefits to injured workers and survivors, and helps ninjure demployees return to work when they are midically able to do so.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 created teh Occupational SAfety and Health ADMinistration (OSHA) to protect employees against injuries from occupational hazards in the workplace.

Occupational Safety adn Health Administration

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 created the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to protect employees against injuries from occupational hazards in the workplace.

Federal workers compensation programs

The U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Office of Worker's Compensation Programs (OWCP) administers programs that provide wage-replacement benefits, medical treatment, vocational rehabilitation, and other benefits to federal workers (or eligible dependents).

Longshore and Harbor Worker's Compensation Program

The program also covers private-industry workers who are engaged in the extraction of natural resources from the outer continental shelf, employees on American defense bases, and those working under contract with the U.S. government for defense or public-works projects outside the continental United States.

State worker's compensation programs

Worker's compensation insurance provides weekly cash payments and reimburses healthcare costs for covered employees who develop a work-related illness or sustain an injury while on the job. It also provides payments to injury.

Note:

Workers compensation is sometimes mistakenly referred to by its previous name, workman's compensation.

State Insurance (or Compensation) Fund

a quasi-public agency that provides workers' compensation insurance coverage to private adn public employers and acts as an agent in state worker's compensation cases involving state employees.

Each state establishes a Worker's Compensation Board or Commision

a state agency responsible for administering workers' compensation laws and handling appeals for denied claims or cases in which a worker feels compensation was too low .

State workers compensation programs

also administers programs that provide wage replacement for injure workers.

The Department of labor

also manages the following programs designed to prevent work-related injuries and illnesses. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) 2. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)

Combination programs:

employers in some states are allowed to choose a combination of any of the above to comply with worker's compensation coverage .

Self-Insurance plans:

employers with sufficient capital to qualify can self-insure, which means they are required to set aside a state-mandated percentage of capital funds to cover medical expenses, wage compensation , and other benefits (e.g. death benefit to an employee's dependents ) payable to emplyees who develop on the job illnesses and/or incur injuries.

Federal Black Lung Program

enacted in 1969 as part of the Black Lung Benefits Act, provides medical treatment and other benefits for respiratory conditions related to fromer employment in teh nation's coal mines.

OSHA

establish protective standards, enforce those standards and reach out employers and employees by providing technical assistance and consultation programs.

OSHA

establish protective standards, enforce those standards, adn reach out to employers adn emplouees by providing technical assistance and consultation programs.

Workers compensation

laws also protect employers and fellow workers by limiting the award an injured employee can recover from an employer and by eliminating the liability of coworkers in most accidents.

Materials Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

which contain information about chemical and hazardous substances used on site. Training employees in the safe handling of these substances is also required.

Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

which contain information about chemical and hazardous substances used on site. Training employees in the safe handling of these subtances is also required.

Eligibility for workers compensation coverage

The workers does not have to be physically on company property to qualify for workers' compensation.

Federal and State Laws

require emploers to maintain worker's compensation coverage to meet minimum standards covering a mojority of employees for work-related illnesses and injuries ( as long as the employee was not negligent in perforning the assigned duties).