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BMed Sci, BM BS, DTM&H, FRACGP Dr Andrew Lowdon, originally trained in the UK, has spent over a decade working…
Health Surveillance
Health surveillance is the monitoring of a person’s health for the purpose of identifying changes in the person’s health status resulting from exposure to a hazardous substance.
Employers are required to appoint a registered medical practitioner to supervise health surveillance of employees at the workplace where there is a risk of adverse health effects from exposure to hazardous substances.
Mt Hawthorn Medical Centre is prepared to offered the required Appointed Medical Practitioner (AMP) who is a Consultant Occupational and Environmental Physician with the relevant knowledge and experience of health surveillance in order to plan, implement and evaluate a health surveillance program and lead our team of medical practitioners to conduct the appropriate medical examinations and tests for the hazardous substances in question.
Health surveillance programs are a requirement for workers exposed to the following substances:
- Acrylonitrile
- Arsenic (inorganic)
- Asbestos
- Benzene
- Cadmium
- Chromium (inorganic)
- Creosote
- Crystalline Silica
- Isocyanates
- Lead (inorganic)
- Mercury (inorganic)
- Vinyl chloride
- Organophosphates pesticides
- Pentachlorophenol (PCP)
- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
- Thallium
- 4,4’-Methylene bis (2-chloroaniline) (MOCA)
