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Where the employer can demonstrate compliance
with regulation 7 by another evaluation method, this
requirement does not apply.
The monitoring must take place:
than 12 months. Where a relevant doctor certifi es that
an employee should either not be engaged in work
which exposes them to a particular substance, or that
medical surveillance should continue after exposure has
ceased, the employer must ensure this.
Employees for whom health surveillance is
necessary are required to present themselves for this
and provide the relevant doctor with any necessary
health information.
Where health surveillance reveals that an employee
has an identifi able disease or adverse health effect which
a relevant doctor considers to be the result of exposure
to a substance hazardous to health, the employer is
required to:
➤
At regular intervals
➤
When any changes occur which may affect that
exposure
➤
As specifi ed in Schedule 5.
The employer must make and maintain a suitable record
of any monitoring for:
➤
At least 40 years where the monitoring relates to the
personal exposure of identifi able employees
➤
At least 5 years in any other case.
➤
Ensure that the employee is informed by a suitably
qualifi ed person who provides them with information
and advice regarding health surveillance
➤
Review their risk assessment
➤
Review any controls and preventive measures, tak-
ing account of any advice by a relevant doctor
15.16.7
Health surveillance - regulation 11
Where it is appropriate for the protection of their employ-
ees who are liable to be exposed to a substance hazard-
ous to health, the employer must ensure employees are
under health surveillance.
The circumstances where health surveillance would
be deemed appropriate are:
➤
Consider assigning the employee to alternative work
➤
Provide for a review of any other employee's
health who has been similarly exposed where
recommended.
➤
The employee is exposed to a substance as speci-
fi ed in Schedule 6 and there is a reasonable likeli-
hood that an identifi able disease or adverse health
effect will result from that exposure
A relevant doctor may, for the purposes of carrying out
their function, inspect any workplace or relevant record
and the employer must permit this.
➤
The employee exposure is such that:
15.16.8 Information, instruction and training -
regulation 12
➤
An identifi able disease or adverse health effect
may be related to the exposure or
➤
There is a reasonable likelihood that the disease
or effect may occur under the particular condi-
tions of work and
Where their employees are likely to be exposed to sub-
stances hazardous to health, the employer is required
to provide them with suitable and suffi cient information,
instruction and training including:
➤
There are valid techniques for detecting indica-
tions of the disease or effect (these must be of
low risk to the employee).
➤
Details of the substances hazardous to health to
which the employee is liable to be exposed:
The employer must:
➤
The names of those substances and the risk
they present to health
➤
Keep a health record for the surveillance contain-
ing particular details approved by HSE for at least
40 years from the date of the last entry
➤
Any relevant workplace exposure limit
➤
Access to any relevant safety data sheet
➤
Other legal relevant requirements
➤
Allow the employee access to their personal health
records
➤
The signifi cant fi ndings of the risk assessment
➤
The appropriate precautions and actions to be taken
by the employee to safeguard themselves and others
➤
The results of any monitoring (where a WEL is
approved, the employee should also be informed
immediately if the results show that this has been
exceeded)
➤
Provide HSE with copies as required
➤
Notify HSE if they cease to trade and make the
records available to them.
Where the employee is exposed to a substance as
specifi ed in Schedule 6, the health surveillance should
include medical surveillance under the supervision of a
relevant doctor. This should be at intervals of not more
➤
The collective results of any health surveillance (these
results must not be identifi able to an individual).
