Hi
I have attached the Night Shift Workers questionnaire used in the Orchid
OH Software as this was requested by one of our customers who provides
OH services to Industry.
Thought you might be interested.
Regards
Neil Connor
CHI
http://www.chi.co.uk
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> From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Connie Pieroway
> Sent: 24 January 2010 11:28
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> Subject: [OCC-HEALTH] Night Workers Health Assessments
>
> Hi
>
> I'm just curious as to how people deal with Night Workers Health
> Assessments. My understanding has always been that an employer, under the
> Working Time Directive, must make provision for a health assessment for any
> employees considered to be Night Workers. In my experience, this
> requirement has been interpreted in any number of ways, from insisting that all
> night workers come in and have a face to face Health Assessment, to a simple
> paperscreen offered to anyone who meets the nightworker criteria and who
> actually wants the assessment. Over the years I've also found that the
> health assessment itself has been different. Some OH departments ask every
> question under the sun, and include tests such as BP, Pulse, Urinalysis, Height
> and Weight, and others are more specific in trying to ask questions that could
> actually have a bearing on someone's ability to carry out work at night.
>
> Then there is the issue of follow-up, especially when sometimes a decent HR
> policy isn't even in place. If someone comes along for a health assessment,
> perhaps not really understanding why, and health issues are found which could
> have a bearing on their fitness to work nights, then that person (and not their
> colleague who may have exactly the same health issues but has chosen not
> to have the assessment) could find their position under scrutiny.
>
> I've worked in industry and the NHS and have found that every department
> deal with it differently. Has anyone come up with a system that doesn't just
> pay lip-service to the Working Time Directing requirement, but that works? Or
> is it just not seen as that much of a concern, when statutory health
> surveillance programmes, health monitoring, or managing sickness absence is
> the priority in many OH depts?
>
> As I said, I'm just curious, and would like to hear what folk have to say.
>
> Connie
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