Health Surveillance

A system of health checks for workers exposed to certain working conditions.

Health Surveillance health checks may be required to be carried out routinely and may form part of a health surveillance program carried out by an occupational health provider.

Health Surveillance

Health surveillance relates to having sufficient policies and procedures in place to detect work-related ill-health before it becomes a severe. Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 (HSWA) states that employers have a general duty of care to ensure, so far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare of all their employees.

If there is a potential risk to employees, employers are asked to identify the need for health surveillance by conducting a risk assessment. If the risk assessment summary results in potential risk that cannot be avoided or have a likelihood to cause short or long-term harm, employers will need organise appropriate health surveillance, which can:

• Recommend preventative measures
• Help evaluate potential health risks
• Detecting ill-health effects at an early stage

Our health surveillance services can help those who are exposed to noise or vibration, ionising radiation, solvents, fumes, dusts, biological agents and other substances hazardous to health.

Our testing and screening includes:

• Lung function test (spirometry)
• Hearing test (audiometry)
• Vision assessment
• Skin review
• Hearing test (audiometry)
• HAVS surveillance
• Blood pressure monitoring
• Blood glucose measurement
• Blood cholesterol measurement (pin prick test)
• Drug and alcohol testing (instant and lab)
• Musculoskeletal survey
• Physical Workplace assessment
• Workplace stress assessment
• Urine analysis (instant and lab)

Testing For Drugs Of Abuse

Ipsum Health provides a comprehensive drugs of abuse testing service. From instant tests that can be completed with results and cerification in just a few minutes, to chain of custody tests that follow a strict protocol to confirm individual sample validity.

Common Drugs of Abuse Tested:

• Alcohol
• Amphetamine
• Cocaine
• Benzodiazepine
• Barbiturates
• Marijuana
• Opiates
• Methamphetamine
• Propoxyphene
• Ketamine

How do we refer an employee to IGP Occupational Health?

Simply complete the contact form using the link below and we will email you a copy of our referral template. Alternatively, please contact us if you would like to use your own template. Once you have completed and returned the templated we can arrange a suitable appointment. In our referral document you are given an opportunity to outline the employee's current situation. We will automatically answer a number of standard questions relating to the employee's absence. However, if you also have your own questions, we ask that you include these prior to the appointment as part of the referral.

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