Module: People
Occupational health and hygiene
Some harm takes years to appear. Monitor what people are exposed to, keep health monitoring on schedule, and keep the protective equipment they depend on fitted, current and recorded.
What it does
A programme for each hazard you monitor
Monitoring is organised by hazard: noise, respirable crystalline silica, asbestos, lead, welding fume, diesel particulate, isocyanates, vibration and hazardous chemicals. Each programme holds the people in scope, the sampling done, the health monitoring and the reviews.
Groups, not just individuals
People doing the same work under the same conditions are grouped, so a result can be read for the group as well as the person. Who joined a group and who left it is tracked, which is what makes an exposure history hold up years later.
Results measured against the standard
A measurement records the agent, the sampling method, the equipment and when it is next due for calibration, the duration and the result, with the laboratory report attached. Each result is classified against the exposure standard, and one above it is flagged until somebody has acted on it.
Telling the person who was monitored
A result letter can be produced for the worker from their own measurement, so the duty to tell them what their result was is met with a document rather than a conversation nobody recorded.
Health monitoring kept on schedule
Health monitoring is scheduled for the people whose exposure calls for it and shows what is scheduled, complete and overdue. The records themselves sit under clinical access, so the person arranging appointments does not need to see them.
Respiratory protection, fitted and current
Every respirator issued is recorded against the person with its make and model, the fit test, the method used, the result and when the next fit test falls due. Days of use are logged, and equipment taken out of service is marked so it cannot be issued again.
Controls reviewed rather than assumed
Controls put in place against an exposure get their own review, so a control recorded years ago is checked and re-confirmed instead of being taken on faith.
The duties that follow, raised for you
Rules raise the duty when its trigger occurs: enough days in a respirator brings the fit test forward, a result above the exposure standard raises a reassessment, and health monitoring becomes due on its own schedule. Each rule names the legislation it comes from.
How it fits with the rest
Exposure monitoring works from the same people, locations and business units as everything else, so a group is built from who actually does the work and an exposure history follows the person if they move. The chemicals register supplies what the substance is and what it does, and a monitoring result can be linked to the risk it evidences, so the risk register carries the measurement rather than a recollection of it.
At the entrance, a medical clearance can be required before a person is admitted, and a respirator with an overdue fit test is visible before the shift rather than after it. Where an exposure does cause harm, the injury record can be tied to the monitoring result that evidences it, and health information stays under its own access in both places.
Anything that needs doing becomes ordinary work. A result above the standard, an overdue health appointment or a control due for review raises an action with an owner and a due date, escalated if it slips.
Ready-made content
Regulatory packs install per hazard and per jurisdiction: asbestos, respirable crystalline silica, noise, lead, isocyanates, diesel particulate, welding fume, vibration and hazardous chemicals, for every Australian state and territory, the Commonwealth, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Each rule cites the instrument it comes from, states the exposure standard and the monitoring duties as starting values you can tune, and installs switched off, because your organisation is the duty holder and decides which duties it is taking on.
The monitoring programmes, sampling records, health monitoring schedules and respirator registers come ready to use alongside them. Your team or ours can add a hazard particular to your operation, change an exposure standard as the law moves, or write a rule of your own the same way the supplied ones are written.
Change it if you need to
Every module comes ready to use. If your organisation records something differently, your own team can adjust the forms, fields and workflow, or ask us to do it with you. Nothing here requires a development project.
Works alongside
See occupational health and hygiene running on your own processes.
Bring one of your own forms or procedures to the demonstration. We set the module up the way you work and show it end to end.