4. Medical surveillance of employees is often an important addition to the control measures in the workplace, regulation 7(1) of the HCS Regulations specifies where medical surveillance is appropriate for the protection of the health of employees.
4.1 Medical surveillance is defined in the Regulations to cover the spectrum of potential effects of an HCS on an employee, from absorption of the substances through to clinical disease. Medical surveillance may be grouped broadly into-
(a) biological monitoring, to measure the extent of absorption of an HCS by the employee.
(b) medical screening, to detect any adverse affects of an HCS on the employee.
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