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Posted By Joseph
I would like to query what is the frequency of doing medical tests for employees working within slaughterhouses. I have asked a medical doctor about the subject but he was very vague in his reply. My concern most of all is all about contagious disease from the carcasses (zoonoses) that our workers can get. Does OHS legislation says something about the matter, beside that you have to do an adequate Risk Assessment?
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Posted By BLS
Not sure if am covering exactly what you mean but - what zoonoses are you concerned about (Are we talking vets doing post mortem or slaughterhouse workers)?
We have a number of livestock workers and we carry out health surveillance for noise(due to other machinery and some of the sheds), contact dermatitis and lung function risks for occupational asthma from dander, urine etc...) but don't do health surveillance for specific zoonoses, most things have an acute affect so no point and for chronic conditions like orf, ringworm etc... we provide training on id symptoms and preventing cross contamination, controls so on. Don't believe there is a prescribed set of mandatory medicals for exposure to zoonoses!
If you want more info on anything specific e-mail me and I'll see if I can help
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Posted By Doug Russell Joseph I was puzzled by the reference to vet services in your title. If you work in the UK, the slaughterhouse employer has duties under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health regulations to protect their own staff against zoonoses and ,where appropriate, to provide health surveillance for staff. There is a joint working party involving the HSE, employers' organisations and trade unions for the meat industry. It produces health and safety guidance on COSHH plus a workers card on zoonoses (that the worker can give to their GP if they go to the doctor with an illness) and they have recently issued new guidance on Q fever. Go to this link for information- http://www.bmpa.uk.com/content/sft-Health.asp.If you do have health and safety responsility in the meat industry in Britain contact the BMPA for further information.
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