Health surveillance and occupational health

Health surveillance

• Overview

  Health and safety law requires health surveillance for some health risks

• Understand your business needs

  Understand whether you need health surveillance or medical surveillance

• Record keeping

  Your responsibilities around record keeping

• Manage the risk

  Your risk assessment will help you decide if you need health surveillance

• Setting up a health surveillance scheme

  How to set up a scheme in your business

• Health, biological monitoring and biological effect monitoring

  Understand the different types of monitoring

• Consult your workers

  You must consult your workers about health surveillance

• Act on the results of health surveillance

  How to use the information from health surveillance

Occupational health

• Occupational health

  What occupational health is and your duties

• Buying support from occupational health professionals

  Make sure you buy the right support

• Assess the competence of occupational health professionals

  Choose an occupational health professional with the right skills and competence for your business