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mark Jinks  
#1 Posted : 15 February 2019 12:43:32(UTC)
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mark Jinks

HI I have a query about health surveillance and health monitoring

I understand that health surveillance is required by law in some legisaltion ,eg Noise,Coshh, Havs, but can anyone tell me the difference between Health Surveillance and health monitoring with some clear examples please ??

regards

Mark

Woolf13  
#2 Posted : 15 February 2019 13:00:40(UTC)
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Woolf13

Health monitoring is an informal, non-statutory method of surveying your workforce for symptoms of ill health, including lower back pain. This type of occupational health management system can enable you, as an employer, to be aware of health problems and intervene to prevent problems being caused or made worse by work activities e.g. manual handling. Another important role of health monitoring is to feedback into a system that reviews the current control methods in place.

Health surveillance is a system of ongoing health checks. These health checks may be required by law for employees who are exposed to noise or vibration, ionising radiation, solvents, fumes, dusts, biological agents and other substances hazardous to health, or work in compressed air.

See links below to HSE website, including useful guides:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/msd/wbv.htm

http://www.hse.gov.uk/health-surveillance/index.htm

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mark Jinks on 15/02/2019(UTC)
descarte8  
#3 Posted : 18 February 2019 14:34:49(UTC)
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descarte8

Interesting article of the cost V benefit of workplace health promotion (over and above statutory health surveillance) if you have the time:

https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/research/ias/Wellbeing-at-work-review-Jan-31.pdf

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