Health surveillance
Our health surveillance services help employers meet legal obligations while protecting employee wellbeing. Through ongoing monitoring and role-specific assessments, we identify risks early, support reasonable adjustments, and ensure a safer, healthier workforce.
Health surveillance
As an employer, you have a legal obligation to ensure you don’t put your employee’s health at risk, and to make reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010. This means that working for you and the requirements of the role must not make any pre-existing health conditions worse or aggravate symptoms.
After a New Worker Health Assessment upon appointment, our ongoing health surveillance can help keep everyone safe throughout the employment – keeping check on pre-existing conditions and spotting any new ones.
It’s a sensible precaution to use our health surveillance service to protect yourself, and your employees. It’s a cost-effective way of meeting health and safety legislation and supports the wellbeing of your employees.
The service can be delivered onsite or at a local clinic near you. We can provide a ‘recall’ service where appropriate and provide management information to employers so you can screen workers within the recommended intervals and before fitness certifications expire.
Ideal for:
- Workplace hearing tests (audiometry) under The Control of Noise Regulations 2005
- Workplace skin surveillance under COSHH 2002
- Respiratory function tests (spirometry) under COSHH 2002
- Cardiovascular screening and investigations under COSHH 2002
- Drivers and forklift truck operators’ assessments
- Food handlers assessments
- Lone worker assessments
- Fork lift truck driver medicals
- Driver medicals
- Vibration, HVAS and manual handling assessments
- Cold storage reviews
- Night worker health surveillance
- Breathing apparatus and confined space medicals
- Climbers and riggers medicals
- Working at heights medicals
- OGUK Offshore and Norwegian medicals
- Sea farers medicals
- Ergonomic and DSE assessments
- Industry specific assessments. Eg asbestos, ionising radiation, lead
Get in touch to discuss health surveillance
Paul Bennett
Business Development Lead
A cost effective health surveillance service protects you and your employees
We can help you meet your legal obligations under health and safety and equalities laws, managing recalls and ensuring your employees are always ‘fit to work’.
Book a call nowFAQs
How quickly can you support us?
We have the capacity to mobilise services to meet your timescales, whatever they are. As soon as we understand what your needs are, we’ll deploy clinicians to the benefit of your business and workforce.
What’s the commitment once I work with you?
Sugarman is committed to establishing positive, transparent working relationships with our clients from the outset to provide a high-quality, bespoke OH service. Sugarman is committed to working with the client to achieve increased employee engagement, wellbeing and productivity, with a focus on prevention and value for money. This will promote a reduction in issues such as sickness absence, work-related ill health, presenteeism, litigation claims etc.
How will you keep my employee’s information safe?
Our systems comply with the rules and regulations for keeping your information safe, and we pride ourselves on our care and attention to doing this. We’re also reviewed annually as part of our accreditations.
Do you offer services on a pay as you go basis?
You can purchase our services on a pay as you go basis, or purchase an in-house full occupational health service or anything in between. Our simple pricing structure enables you to build the package, and level of commitment, that works for your business.
How does this differ from the New Employee Screening service?
Pre-placement assessments focus on assessing an individual’s fitness for a specific job before they start, while health surveillance is an ongoing process that monitors employees’ health during their employment to ensure they are not adversely affected by workplace exposures. Both are vital components of occupational health management, aimed at safeguarding the well-being of employees in their work environments.
How often do I need to repeat screening?
At Sugarman, we understand that the frequency of repeat screening depends on various factors unique to job role, industry, and exposure risks.
Our approach begins with a comprehensive needs assessment, where we evaluate your workplace conditions, the substances you may be exposed to, and the potential health effects. This assessment serves as the foundation for determining how often you should undergo repeat screening.
As a dedicated Occupational Health provider, Sugarman’s expert team ensures that your repeat screening schedule is tailored precisely to your needs. Whether you’re exposed to specific substances, noise, or other hazards, we factor in industry regulations and best practices to create a health surveillance plan.
Is this an ongoing service, or a one off?
Health surveillance is an ongoing service rather than a one-off event. It involves regular and systematic monitoring of employees’ health throughout their employment tenure, especially when they are exposed to specific workplace hazards, substances, or activities that could potentially impact their health over time. The goal of health surveillance is to detect early signs of work-related ill health and ensure that the measures in place to protect employees’ health are effective.