Occupational Health Care Services
Prosano can assist you with pre-employment health assessments of legislated employment medicals with their mandated content, at recruitment and/or work change. Keeping your risk management goals in mind, Prosano can recommend the best strategy for your employment health assessment.
Your pre-employment medical assessment needs to consider your specific work practices, legislation and compensation. A well-designed pre-employment medical will assist in determining the baseline level of fitness of your worker. Prosano will assist you in designing your pre-employment medicals for your organisation and implementing best practice solution for managing the health risk of your workforce.
A Rail Safety Worker Assessment is part of the national system of health assessments for rail safety which workers aims to ensure that employees can conduct their work safely. The assessment also aims to ensure early identification and management of health conditions that might impact on an employee’s duties if left untreated.
These Rail Safety Worker Health Assessments are required in the following instances:
Rail Safety Worker Assessments are categorised as follows:
Employers are required to ensure their workforce is able to safely perform the essential and inherent duties of their role without significant risk of harm to themselves or others. Prosano is able to assist with drug and alcohol testing is a regulatory requirement or best practice in your industry.
Organisations Periodic random testing supports your drug and Alcohol policy on an ongoing basis, acting as a deterrent to usage prohibited by your policy.
Workplace health and safety legislation demands that health and safety issues are managed this includes fitness for duty in particular environments such as confined spaces. The definition of confined space applies to any space that is not designed for continuous human occupancy that has limited means of access by way of entry or exit. Employers are required by legislation to ensure their employees are fit to work in and are able to exit the spaces safely should the need arise.
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An exit health assessment provides and documents details on an individual employee’s health status at the time they leave an organisation. An exit assessment can assist organisations Workers Compensation claims lodged by former employees against a former employer.
Prosano will provide a reliable assessment of the health status of your employee prior to time of exiting employment. We will document exposure history and collect biometric data that can assist organisations in the future.
Different categories of employees are required by law to hold a Commercial Vehicle/Dangerous Goods driver’s license. Commercial vehicle driver health standards are more stringent than the private standards and reflect the increased risk associated with motor vehicle accidents involving commercial vehicles.
Austroads has recently revised its guidelines, Assessing Fitness to Drive to outline commercial vehicle driver medical standards.
Employees who are subjected to a Fitness to Drive examination include the following:
You can contact Prosano for operators of heavy vehicles for the following commercial drivers licences:
When making appointments, please state clearly that a fitness to drive test must be carried out. The Consultant Occupational physician will communicate the results to the employer and the employee by means of the health assessment form.