Health Surveillance and Monitoring

Health monitoring (or Health Surveillance) is the monitoring of a worker to identify changes in their health status because of exposure to hazardous chemicals or asbestos through their working environment. It involves experienced doctors examining and supervising the health monitoring of your workers to see if the exposure to hazardous chemicals or asbestos at work is affecting their health. If you are not sure and need to discuss your concerns or workplace exposure please contact our Specialist Team for assistance.

A person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU) must ensure health monitoring is provided to a worker if the worker:

• is carrying out ongoing work using, handling, generating or storing hazardous chemicals, and there is a significant risk to the worker’s health because of exposure to a hazardous chemical listed in Schedule 14 to the WHS Regulations
• is carrying out ongoing work using, handling, generating or storing hazardous chemicals and there is a significant risk the worker will be exposed to hazardous chemicals other than those listed in Schedule 14 and either:
• valid techniques are available to detect the effect on the worker’s health, or
• a valid way of determining exposure is available and it is uncertain on reasonable grounds whether exposure has resulted in the biological exposure standard being exceeded
• commences or is conducting lead risk work, or
• is carrying out licensed asbestos removal or other asbestos related work.