Dr Ben Banwait

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)