Health Surveillance and Health Screening
All our health surveillance services can be provided on your premises or via our Highbridge based clinic.
Health Surveillance and Health Screening often involve the same tests but for a different purpose.
Health Surveillance
A series of ongoing health checks to help protect employees from health risks at work.
As an employer, you must make sure workers’ health is not impacted by their work. Health and safety law requires health surveillance when your workers remain exposed to health risks even after you have put controls in place.
Common challenges include noise, vibration and exposure to hazardous substances.
Health Screening
Health screening focuses on establishing an employee’s health, prior to engagement on a task or exposure to a hazard.
Its main aim is to advise employers on the employee’s health and make recommendations on what adjustments can be considered to ensure a safe/healthy working environment for that employee.
Health Surveillance and Health Screening services may include:
Exposure to high levels of noise over a prolonged period of time can lead to Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL). Detecting early signs of hearing loss and identifying if your control measures are working properly is crucial to ensuring the continued good health of your employees.
Any employee who regularly and frequently works with vibrating tools and equipment and/or handle vibrating materials is at risk. HAVS can have a profound effect on the health and quality of life of an individual.
Spirometry tests must be completed where employees are exposed to substances and/or processes where lung damage and respiratory diseases are a known problem. Some of these substances include Isocyanates, metalworking fluids, flour and grain dust, wood dust, latex, rosin-cored solder fume, glues and resins.
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), is the term used to describe a variety of conditions including back pain, upper limb disorders (including RSI), neck pain and lower limb pain.
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“Our lost working days have decreased since Aardvark Occupational Health took over our schedule of Occupational Health Screening.”
Construction Manager, South West UK
