29 CFR 1910 regulations concerning storing employee prescription medication in an occupational first aid kit?

I have an employee who is asthmatic, and he's put a back-up inhaler in one of our First-Aid kits here at work, and I'm not comfortable with it since I can't find any regulations in regards to the legalities of it's storage there. It's not narcotic, and the prescription is well labeled for what it is and for who. It'll just be my luck that if there IS a regulation against it, OSHA will show up and find it.

I've looked through the CFR 1910 under everything I can think of, and I can't seem to find any regulations concerning an employee storing his/her own prescription medication in a workplace First-Aid kit.

Anyone got any ideas on where else I might further look for information?

I work in a production facility, and that particular first-aid kit is behind locked doors in our first-aid room. It's only accessible to our "first responders", and no one would have access to it without trained supervision.

If its in the communal kit I would just tell him that for insurance purposes you cannot allow him to place prescription medication of any kind in a public area, nor can you guarantee him that someone else will not use it, infect it with their germs and you cannot even insure that it will be there when he looks for it. Contact your insurance for actual protocol. You may have to store an emergency supply for him somewhere where no one else has access- but for day to day medicines I'm pretty sure they should be kept at his desk or on his person

no but i would leave him alone he needs it and if he is a good worker it will either offend or hurt his feelings

Contact either OSHA directly or your state health department. personally, I don't see why he can't keep the back-up inhaler in his desk or own work space.

It's just plain illegal to keep presecription medications anywhere in public. They are guarded heavily in pharmacy because of HIPAA regulations and other laws. If I were you, I would tell him about HIPAA regulations and inform him that his name, prescription number, etc are all on that and he needs to be responsible with his private information. You could be sued if someone abused the info that is kept in that kit. He can just keep it in his trunk and get it if he 'forgets" it, or somewhere in the workplace that is LOCKED and HIS. It CANNOT be in a publicly accessable place. It's the law...