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Alison
Please can you clarify what you mean here? Health surveillance is a legal requirement under several pieces of health and safety legislation - so there is little choice as to whether it can or cannot be undertaken if the risk assessment to the hazard has identified that there is a need for health surveillance. Your company is risking prosecution. So if you are withdrawing health surveillance how will you have 'abnormal results'? Are you talking about abnormal results of skin surveillance and hearing assessment or cholesterol and blood pressure? The reason I ask is because what you do about these abnormal results will depend on which ones you are talking about
 
There is no legal requirement for lifestyle programmes to be undertaken by OH but no health promotion programmes should be undertaken unless the procedures include what happens to when there are abnormal results.
 
It all seems a little bit mixed up here.
 
Greta Thornbory
Consultant, Occupational Health & Education
Consultant Editor, OH Journal
www.gtenterprises-uk.com
Tel: 01235 770156
Mob: 07778 518 027
 
 
 
 
 
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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Alison Wilbur
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Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2007 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [OCC-HEALTH] legal obligations when withdrawing a screening or surveillance program

Hi All

Please can anyone help!  As a business we are now changing the service
provision to employees.  Health surveillance programs such as skin
surveillance, and hearing assessments, and lifestyle programs such as
cholesterol monitoring and review of blood pressure are being withdrawn.
Where there are abnormal results do I have a legal obligation to inform
the employee directly to the change in service and advise them to make
arrangements for review by their GP.  Do this also apply to those
employees who were being reviewed due to the impact of a medical
condition or injury (whether occupational or not)by the occupational
health physician regarding workplace adjustments or rehabilitation
programs.

Anybody any idea where I can acquire such information if nobody has the
details?

Thanks
Alison

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