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Workplace Medicine
Full regulatory compliance across advisory, health surveillance, and training responsibilities.
1.1 Advisory and Guidance
- Participating in the occupational health and safety board, advising on monitoring the working environment and employee health, and following up on decisions taken
- Inspecting and advising on the maintenance and cleanliness of canteens, dining halls, dormitories, nurseries and nursing rooms, changing rooms, showers, and toilets
- Advising on occupational health, hygiene, collective protection methods, and personal protective equipment
- Advising the employer on the activities needed to improve occupational health and safety at the workplace
- Conducting periodic on-site reviews and participating in risk assessment work as part of occupational health and safety activities
- Carrying out the protective health examinations required by regulation for assessing and preventing health-related risks at the workplace
- Determining whether there is a link between absenteeism due to health issues and potential health hazards at the workplace, arranging workplace measurements where needed, and evaluating the results from an employee-health standpoint
- Studying the fit between work and worker in terms of ergonomic and psychosocial risk, considering employees' physical and mental capacity, and researching protection from workplace stress factors
1.2 Health Surveillance
- Monitoring employee health, including night-shift workers
- Scheduling and keeping on file pre-employment and periodic health examinations at the intervals set by occupational health and safety regulation
- Conducting return-to-work examinations after health-related absence and recommending suitable alternative roles where returning to the previous job would be inadvisable
- Conducting the required protective health examinations and issuing reports for placing sensitive risk groups — those with a diagnosed or suspected occupational disease, chronic illness, substance dependency, or a history of multiple workplace accidents — into suitable roles
- Carrying out prevention and immunization work to control the spread of communicable diseases, and arranging carrier screenings
- Where an occupational safety specialist is present, recommending and evaluating the measurements needed to monitor the working environment based on health surveillance results, in cooperation with that specialist
- Keeping employees informed and obtaining their consent regarding health surveillance, and adequately informing them of health risks and the examinations performed
- Arranging the necessary laboratory tests, radiological examinations, and carrier screenings; controlling communicable diseases; running immunization programs; and continuously monitoring the general hygiene conditions of the workplace and its facilities
- Preparing the annual work plan in cooperation with the occupational safety specialist where one is present, recording health-surveillance activities at the workplace, and submitting the annual evaluation report electronically to the Ministry in the format set out in Annex-5
1.3 Training and Awareness
- Organizing first-aid and emergency-response services at the workplace and ensuring staff are trained, in line with applicable regulation
- Cooperating with relevant parties to provide knowledge and training in occupational health, hygiene, and ergonomics
- Training workplace managers, occupational health and safety board members, employees, and their representatives on general health topics, and ensuring this training continues over time
- Training staff on the harms of using addictive substances
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