Health Monitoring for Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals - Guide for workers

Health monitoring means monitoring of a person to identify changes in the person’s health status because of exposure to certain substances.

Health monitoring may include:

• consultation, for example, answering questions regarding previous occupational and medical history or lifestyle, for example dietary, smoking and drinking habits and discussing with the worker how this may affect their health.
• a physical examination, for example skin checks or a spirometry (lung function) test
• clinical tests, for example, urine or blood samples
• X-rays.

Related materials

• Hazardous Chemicals Requiring Health Monitoring