Health Surveillance - Resources
Case studies
- Cambridge firm and consultant fined over chemical exposure
- Health screening company failed its duty to employees
Useful links
Detailed, industry-specific guidance on health surveillance associated with hazardous substances can be found at the following links:
Hazardous industry
Agriculture
- Grain dust
- COSHH essentials in agriculture: Advice for farmers
- Veterinary medicines: Safe use by farmers and other animal handlers
Motor vehicle repair
- Safety in motor vehicle repair: Working with isocyanate paints
- Urine sampling for isocyanate exposure measurement
Metalworking fluids
Timber treatment / wood working
Food industry
Beauty industry
Printing industry
- COSHH essentials for printers: Health surveillance for occupational asthma
- COSHH essentials for printers: Health surveillance for occupational dermatitis
- COSHH essentials for printers: Biological monitoring for isocyanates
Welding, hot work and allied processes
General dust exposure
Borehole sites and operation
- Boreholes Sites and Operations Regulations 1995 regulation 10. As is necessary for their protection
Construction industry
- Managing occupational health risks in construction
- COSHH essentials: Health monitoring for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- COSHH essentials: Health surveillance for occupational asthma
- COSHH essentials: Health surveillance for occupational dermatitis
- COSHH essentials: Health surveillance for those exposed to respirable crystalline silica (RCS)
- HSE Construction information sheet: Cement