HAVS assessments for your whole workforce.
If your employees are exposed to hand-arm vibration, the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 place the duty on you as the employer to assess that exposure and arrange health surveillance where it's needed. We'll help you schedule both as a group.
Assessment and surveillance are your responsibility, not your workers'.
Regulation 5 requires you to assess the vibration risk to your employees before deciding on controls. Regulation 7 then requires health surveillance for anyone regularly exposed at or above the Exposure Action Value, or occasionally exposed above it where the assessment shows a risk. Both duties sit with you as the employer.
The assessment and the surveillance. Not your engineering controls.
We carry out the risk assessment and the health surveillance for your workforce, and issue written findings for each. Deciding on and implementing controls — tool substitution, maintenance schedules, job rotation, trigger-time limits — remains your responsibility, informed by what our findings show.
What to send us.
The more of this you can tell us upfront, the faster we can confirm a schedule.
Number of workers
How many people need surveillance or a risk assessment, and whether they're all due at the same time.
Tools & tasks involved
Which vibrating tools are in use and roughly how long each role holds a trigger, if known.
Existing tier & renewal dates
Any tier already established, or existing surveillance dates, so nobody lapses.
What you keep afterwards.
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A written record for each worker. Issued to you as the employer after every surveillance round or risk assessment.
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Your own retention duty. Regulation 7(3) requires a health record to be kept for as long as the worker remains under surveillance — the Regulations don't set a fixed retention period beyond that.
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No confidential clinical detail in your copy. The health record you keep should not contain confidential clinical information; that stays with the examining clinician.
Get a schedule built around your workforce.
Tell us your headcount, the tools involved, and any existing tier or renewal dates.