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Health Surveillance

Health surveillance is a programme of ongoing health checks. They allow for early identification of ill-health and futhermore corrective action needed. These health checks may be required by law. For instance employees exposed to noise or vibration, ionising radiation, solvents, fumes, dusts and other substances hazardous to health. Please see below for our full list of health surveillance services.

Health surveillance is the process of monitoring the health of employees exposed to specific health risks during the course of their work. Employers need to provide surveillance to demonstrate that they are meeting their duty of care for their employees.

Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA) states that employers have a general duty of care to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all their employees. Health surveillance is about having procedures in place to detect work-related ill-health at an early stage and acting on the results (HSE, 2005).

Employers have a duty to reduce, so far as is reasonably practicable, the risks to the health and safety of employees and others who may be affected by work activity. The employer needs to identify hazards and assess the risks. Adequate risk assessment will identify significant residual risk to health even after reasonably practicable control measures have been applied. Employees need to understand their role and responsibilities for health and safety; this includes their responsibilities within a health surveillance programme.

Occupational health focuses on the protection and promotion of the health of workers by preventing and controlling occupational diseases and accidents. The aim is to eliminate occupational factors and conditions hazardous to health and safety at work. A suitable health surveillance programme aims to prevent ill health rather than cure it.