Health and Wellbeing - Health Surveillance
Some Health and Safety regulations require employers to provide health surveillance for their employees.
What is health surveillance?
Health surveillance is about systematically watching out for early signs of work-related ill health in employees exposed to certain health risks. It means putting in place certain procedures to achieve this.
These procedures include:
- simple methods, such as looking for skin damage on hands from using certain chemicals.
- technical checks on employees, such as lung function tests.
- more involved medical examinations.
Who needs Health surveillance?
Your manager will assess if any health surveillance is required whilst undertaking risk assessments of your job role. If any are required, Occupational Health will arrange appointments or send you a questionnaire to complete.