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Our Health Risk Assessment is a proactive way to manage occupational health risks across high-hazard industries such as construction, mining, and manufacturing . It is a vital tool in safeguarding the long term health and well-being of your workers whilst ensuring that you are compliant.
A workplace Health Risk Assessment will show the hidden dangers within your workplace. This health hazard evaluation allows you to identify hazards (such as dust, noise, chemicals, or vibration) that could impact the health of your employees. Unlike a safety risk assessment, which focuses on immediate injury risks, this assessment targets the risk to workers health from long-term exposure. By identifying hazards in the workplace that could cause harm to your workers we can determine whether you have taken enough precautions or should do more to prevent harm. In addition, it is a proactive way to ensure compliance with regulatory standards and fosters a culture of health risk prevention within the workplace.
Specifically, an Occupational Health Risk Assessment looks at:
A Health Risk Assessment focuses on exposures that can lead to long-term illnesses (e.g. cancer, hearing loss, respiratory issues), while a safety risk assessment typically focuses on immediate physical injuries (e.g. slips, falls, machinery hazards).
Occupational Exposure Limits (OELs), also known as Workplace Exposure Limits (WELs), are regulatory values that define the maximum safe concentration of a hazardous substance in the workplace. They are based on the potential health effects of exposure to a substance, considering both short-term and long-term risks.
Under the Work Health and Safety Act, you have a duty to identify, assess and control hazards that pose a risk to both the health and safety of your employees. This involves:
Managing Risks To Health And Safety At The Workplace Fact Sheet
We recommend a formal assessment every 2–3 years or whenever:
The key component of our assessment is a structured walkthrough of your site conducted by one of our experienced Occupational Hygiene consultants. This enables us to observe potential health hazards and the levels of exposure.
Our step by step process:
This type of health hazard evaluation will give you a clear visual of your health risks together with recommendations for risk mitigation providing a strong foundation for budget and control planning.
Common health hazards we look for include:
A SEG is a group of workers who perform the same or similar tasks and are likely exposed to the same types of health hazards. For example, welders, fitters, or process line workers may each be SEGs depending on their tasks and work environment. Instead of assessing each individual, SEGs allow for more efficient and focused health monitoring by grouping workers with similar exposures.
Grouping workers into SEGs helps us to efficiently assess and manage exposure risks across the workforce. It avoids duplication and ensures monitoring and controls are targeted where they’re needed most. In addition, using SEGs can lead to significant savings in resources, as fewer samples need to be collected and analysed.
Mitigation controls can only be effective if they are used properly. They also need to be maintained and managed effectively. There are many examples where expensive control measures are installed only for them to remain unused, used infrequently, used incorrectly or poorly maintained and therefore making them ineffective.
This is an example of the way we will visually present our mapping of your SEGs, hazards and risks so that it is an easy to understand guide for you to quickly identify where you need to take action.
All assessments are carried out by experienced JTA consultants with qualifications in occupational hygiene, workplace health, and WHS legislation.
Not at all. We conduct walkthroughs while operations are running as it allows us to observe real tasks and identify genuine exposure scenarios.
Absolutely. A Health Risk Assessment is often the first step to developing an occupational hygiene monitoring plan. It identifies which SEGs require personal exposure monitoring for dust, noise, gases, or other hazards.
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139 Ormond Road Elwood, VIC 3184
Mornington Peninsula
20 Lister Avenue,
Sorrento,
VIC 3943
JTA Health, Safety & Noise Specialists acknowledges the Boon Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the land on which the home of JTA resides. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging, and acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.
