Health and safety law requires health surveillance for some health risks.
Health surveillance is a scheme of repeated health checks which are used to identify ill health caused by work.
Health and safety law requires health surveillance when your workers remain exposed to health risks after you have put controls in place.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recently updated health surveillance webpages have advice on:
- Managing the risk.
- Consulting workers about health surveillance.
- Understanding what type of health surveillance your business needs.
- Setting up a health surveillance scheme.
- Acting on the results of health surveillance.
For further information visit the HSE’s health surveillance webpages.