Health Surveillance
A system of ongoing health checks required by law to ensure employees exposed to risk factors remain safe and healthy.
What is Health Surveillance?
Health Surveillance is a system of ongoing health checks. These health checks may be required by law for employees who are exposed to certain risk factors during the course of doing their jobs.
These can include but are not limited to things like noise or vibration, ionising radiation, solvents, fumes, dusts, biological agents and other substances hazardous to health, or work in compressed air.
Health Surveillance is a legal requirement and should not be confused with:
- ✔ Activities to monitor health where effects from work are suspected but cannot be established.
- ✔ Workplace well-being checks, such as promoting healthy living.
- ✔ Fitness to work examinations (e.g., diving, operating cranes, forklift trucks, or night employees).
Why is it Important?
- ✔ Detecting ill-health effects at an early stage to prevent them from getting worse.
- ✔ Providing data to help employers accurately evaluate health risks.
- ✔ Enabling employees to safely raise concerns about how work affects their health.
- ✔ Highlighting lapses in workplace control measures for risk assessments.
- ✔ Reinforcing training and education on the use of protective equipment.
Health surveillance can help identify where more needs to be done to control risks. Where early signs of work-related ill health are detected, employers must take action to prevent further harm.
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