1. Health Surveillance

If any of your workers are carrying out duties which could have an ongoing harmful effect on their health, the Competent Person must set up health surveillance to monitor the situation.

The COVID-19 pandemic introduced many of us to the need for health surveillance, with many workplaces providing lateral flow tests and PCR tests for workers and following the Government’s guidance on what actions to take following a positive result. The HSE publishes a Health Surveillance Cycle, which can be seen at The health surveillance cycle (hse.gov.uk).

The sequence for the employer to follow is: Risk assessment and controls Do I need health surveillance? What sort of health surveillance do I need? Set up and design health surveillance according to need. Seek help in doing...

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Deciding on whether to institute health surveillance and how to arrange it.

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