Posted By Jonathan Breeze Reg 6 of the Management Regs refers to "...health surveillance as is appropriate..." but then leaves the details to the company risk assessment. This makes sense as an office will have different requirements to say a paint spraying plant. Hope this helps.

Posted By Chris Packham If you have chemicals on site, then: 1) Where it is appropriate for the protection of the health of his employees who are, or are liable to be, exposed to a substance hazardous to health, the employer shall ensure that such employees are under suitable health surveillance. 2) Health surveillance shall be treated as being appropriate where- (a) the employee is exposed to one of the substances specified in Column 1 of Schedule 6 ...... (b) the exposure of an employee to a substance hazardous to health is such that- (i) an identifiable disease or adverse health effect may be related to the exposure, (ii) there is a reasonable likelihood that the disease or effect may occur under the particular conditions of his work, and (iii) there are valide techniques for detecting indications of the disease or effect, and the technique of investigation is of low risk to the employee COSHH Regulation 12 Take a look also at MS24, Medical aspects of occupational skin disease, which also sets out where skin health surveillance is required. If you consider these, then there will be few workplaces where health surveillance would not be something to at least seriously consider. How you do this is another story!!! Chris