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Health Surveillance
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 the effects from work are strongly suspected but cannot be established.
- Workplace well-being checks, such as promoting healthy living.
- Fitness to work examinations e.g. fitness to dive, operate cranes, forklift trucks or health assessments requested by night employees.
Health Surveillance is important for:
- Detecting ill-health effects at an early stage, so employers can introduce better controls to prevent them from getting worse.
- Providing data to help employers evaluate health risks.
- Enabling employees to raise concerns about how work affects their health.
- Highlighting lapses in workplace control measures, therefore providing invaluable feedback to the risk assessment
- Providing an opportunity to reinforce training and education of employees (e.g. on the impact of health effects and the use of protective equipment)
Health surveillance can sometimes be used to help identify where more needs to be done to control risks and where early signs of work-related ill health are detected, employers should take action to prevent further harm and protect employees.
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