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Commission warns volunteers: expired physicals, level-4 restrictions may end workers' compensation coverage at scenes
Summary
County staff told the Fire Service Advisory Commission that volunteer firefighters must have current physicals; members with expired or level-4 physicals who respond to emergency scenes may no longer be covered by workers' compensation after July 1.
Oconee County staff told the Fire Service Advisory Commission that volunteers with expired physical examinations or those classified as level 4 should not be responding to emergency scenes and that workers' compensation coverage for those individuals will cease for on-scene responses beginning July 1, unless their physicals are updated.
A staff member said department chiefs received a letter from a county official (Miss Brock)…
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