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Health Monitoring
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Health Monitoring
Hi all
We are currently looking at our health monitoring programme and interested to hear from others on how often full medicals for field workers are undertaken.
The Good Practice Guideline from Worksafe states that health monitoring should be undertake upon employment and then ‘on a regular (ongoing) basis’
ECP46 CODE OF PRACTICE for HIGH VOLTAGE LIVE LINE WORK states that:
‘A medical examination shall be carried out by a qualified occupational health practitioner to check that the lineworker can physically meet the requirements to carry out the intended work and has no medical condition that could affect the safety of the lineworker or the work team’,
but there is no information relating to whether this is a one off – or regular screening is needed.
Up until now we have been doing annual medicals for all field workers who undertake HV Live Line Work, along with those we believe will be exposed to critical risk on an ongoing basis – such as loud noise, airborne particles or hazardous substances.
The problem we have is determining the need for each worker and applying a frequency.
Annual checks may be too frequent. Hence we would like feedback on what others are doing.
If you have varying frequencies for different roles, and want to break this down into role categories, that is OK and will prove even more helpful (e.g. linemen, techs, electricians etc).
As an aside, we also provide 2-yearly general health checks for office-based workers, but do not make these mandatory. It is only information on the mandatory health monitoring that we seek feedback on thanks.
If you also want to share what is covered in your medical exams that would be welcomed.
Thanks in advance Tony Beaumont
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