Health monitoring
Health control plan
All mines, quarries and petroleum sites are required to develop and implement a health control plan.
The Health control plan guide (PDF, 1.64 MB) provides an overview of steps to be taken to develop a health control plan.
Health control plan fact sheets
- Legislative obligations (PDF, 190.81 KB)
- Identifying and assessing health hazards (PDF, 63.62 KB)
- Controlling health hazards (PDF, 185.11 KB)
- Effective controls to ensure fitness for work (PDF, 50.71 KB)
- Understanding exposure monitoring
- Understanding health monitoring
Health control plan resources
Health control plan resources provide information about specific health hazards, their health consequences, exposure limits and control measures.
- Atmospheric contaminants (PDF, 73.5 KB)
- Diesel particulate matter/exhaust (PDF, 65.24 KB)
- Fitness for work - Alcohol and other drugs (PDF, 66.58 KB)
- Fitness for work - Fatigue (PDF, 92.58 KB)
- Fitness for work - Mental health
- Hazardous substances (PDF, 70.83 KB)
- Hazardous manual tasks (PDF, 71.13 KB)
- Heat stress (PDF, 74.3 KB)
- Ionising radiation (PDF, 82.05 KB)
- Lead (PDF, 67.8 KB)
- Noise (PDF, 72.67 KB)
- Vibration (PDF, 71.41 KB)
- UV radiation (PDF, 62.47 KB)
Exposure monitoring
Controlling health risks requires operators to monitor for the existence of health hazards and monitor the exposure of workers to those hazards.
Health monitoring
Some prescribed hazards require health monitoring (PDF, 106.85 KB) of exposed workers to be conducted. Health monitoring should be conducted by a medical practitioner with experience or training in occupational medicine.
- Fact sheet - Understanding health monitoring (PDF, 106.85 KB)
- Fact sheet - To assist operators in identifying appropriate health monitoring providers for occupational lung disease (PDF, 53.16 KB)
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