CASE STUDY

Annual health monitoring

Link Alliance manages a programme of occupational health monitoring. The purpose of this is to monitor workers’ potential exposure to harmful hazardous substances. A confidential health monitoring programme is offered to all team members at the various sites. This is for those team members whose employer has not already provided the health monitoring.

Link Alliance recognises the importance of a safe and healthy workplace and understands there are both short and long-term health hazards involved with working in construction. Long term health hazards include exposure to noise, vibration, silica, dust, fumes, and other hazardous substances.

Link Alliance has engaged an Occupational Hygienist who works collaboratively at each site to design a programme of regular exposure monitoring. This is based on the work being conducted and by identifying the most significant hazards at each site – e.g. noise and presence of harmful dust. The data is compared with industry best practice and workplace exposure standards set by WorkSafe. Controls are constantly reviewed and improved upon to minimise the risk of exposure.

*Data for January to December 2022