Increase workplace health (WH) surveillance

Sectors likely to have chemical and excessive noise hazards

• Construction
• Manufacturing of food, beverage and tobacco
• Healthcare
• Landscaping
• Logistics and transport
• Marine
• Metal working
• Manufacturing Non-metallic mineral products
• Pharmaceuticals and biological products
• Refineries and petrochemicals
• Rubber and plastic
• Waste treatment and recycling
• Woodworking and furniture

Managing WH hazards at your workplace

If your workplace:

• Uses noisy tools, equipment, machinery or has noisy processes.
• Uses toxic substances or has processes involving/generating toxic substances.

You are required to implement the following measures to control the WH hazards and protect your employees:

• Conduct hygiene monitoring (Noise Monitoring and Toxic Substances Monitoring) to assess exposure levels of your employees to WH hazards and submit the report.
• Send employees who are exposed to specific health hazards for medical examinations by a designated workplace doctor and submit the report.
• Implement upstream risk control measures to reduce employees’ exposures to below permissible exposure level.
• Put in place effective WH programmes such as Hearing Conservation Programme (HCP) or Management of Hazardous Chemical Programme (MHCP) to manage the hazard at the workplace.