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Special Risk Retirement
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:53 am
by jhelms
I'm currently searching for information in regards to Florida agencies that do not participate in the Florida Retirement System and have their Crime Scene Unit, Evidence Unit, and/or Latent Print Unit classified under special risk retirement. My agency does not classify these entities as such, and I believe they most definitely should be. I'm trying to gather all applicable information on this in order to express the need to classify these units as special risk. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
Re: Special Risk Retirement
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2020 7:09 am
by Boyd Baumgartner
According to
121.0515, 2, (h), (i), the risk classification includes:
Effective July 1, 2008, the member must be employed by a local government law enforcement agency or medical examiner’s office and must spend at least 65 percent of his or her time performing duties that involve the collection, examination, preservation, documentation, preparation, or analysis of human tissues or fluids or physical evidence having potential biological, chemical, or radiological hazard or contamination, or use chemicals, processes, or materials that may have carcinogenic or health-damaging properties in the analysis of such evidence, or the member must be the direct supervisor of one or more individuals having such responsibility. If a special risk member changes to another position within the same agency, he or she must submit a complete application as provided in paragraph (4)(a)
If you work in a lab, it looks like you meet the requirements of the retirement system risk classification.
There's already studies out there pertaining to this:
Summary article:
http://www.evidencemagazine.com/index. ... iew&id=507
Actual Study:
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/p ... 8-3257.pdf
Also, your agency should have some sort of chemical hygiene plan in place, something like this:
https://www.cityofboise.org/media/7504/ ... x-a-v1.pdf
So, there should be some sort of agency mitigation of exposure in writing.
Hope it helps.