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HAVS assessment, kept as two separate disciplines.

We arrange health surveillance and hand-arm vibration risk assessments for UK employers. Every service follows HSE guidance under the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005, and we're specific about what that guidance actually says.

How we work

Health surveillance and risk assessment answer different questions โ€” one monitors worker health, the other evaluates workplace exposure โ€” and it's common for the two to get blurred into a single generic "HAVS check". We keep them separate, in the service you book and in what we tell you about it.

Within surveillance, we don't default every worker to the most intensive tier. HSE guidance sets out a tiered approach starting with a questionnaire, escalating to clinical assessment and formal diagnosis only where a response actually indicates it. Tier 4 diagnosis is staged against the modified Stockholm Workshop Scale, not an in-house scoring system.

Where pricing is concerned, we don't publish a flat rate that ignores what's actually involved at each tier โ€” every enquiry gets a quote based on your workforce and the service required.

Health surveillance: Tiers 1โ€“4 Risk assessment: A(8) & controls Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005
Reference

What underpins every page on this site.

Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005

The statutory basis for risk assessment, control measures and health surveillance.

HSE guidance L140

Sets out the tiered approach to health surveillance and the exposure calculation methodology this site's calculator is based on.

Modified Stockholm Workshop Scale

The clinical staging system used at Tier 4 diagnosis, kept distinct from the surveillance tiers themselves.

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