Occupational Health Surveillance to employees in remote location according to their department, location, risk assessment and exposure to Hazards.
Employees from Operation, Maintenance and those who have frequent Exposure to Noise, Vibration, Gas and dust health surveillance will be made annually.
For the Camps employees health surveillance will be every two years.
Occupational Health surveillance is a system of ongoing health checks and often involves carrying out some form of medical examination or test on employees who are exposed to substances such as solvents, fumes, biological agents and other hazardous substances.
Occupational Health surveillance is important to enable early detection of ill-health effects or diseases and also helps employers to evaluate their control measures and to educate employees. The risk assessment will indicate where health surveillance may be needed.
The Aim of Occupational Health Surveillance to find out the work related ill health, by comparing their finding with the previous year Health Data. Work Related ill health is any condition made or worse by the work people do. Prevalent work-related ill-health issues include: occupational hearing loss; hand-arm and whole body vibration syndrome; occupational skin and lung diseases; occupational cancer; and blood borne viruses. Work-related ill-health issues may be caused by physical health hazards (particularly noise and vibration) or by hazardous chemical and biological agents.
The effect an occupation may have on a worker’s health will be dependent on many factors, such as the:
- Type of hazard, route of entry and its effect on the body.
- Frequency and duration of exposure to the hazard.
- Sensitivity and susceptibility of the person (e.g. previous exposure, existing ill-health conditions, level of fitness, etc.).
Health surveillance will allow: Identification of workers with Pre-existing damage. – New damage (which may be work-related).
Removal/exclusion of such workers from Hazards sources (protecting them from further injury).Investigation of Hazards controls to identify and rectify problems (protecting others in the same work).