Safety Critical Medical Assessments: Ensuring a Safe Work Environment
Safety critical medicals are medical assessments designed to evaluate an individual's fitness for safety-critical roles.
These roles involve tasks where a sudden loss of consciousness, impaired judgement, or limitations in mobility could pose a significant risk to themselves or others.
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What to Expect During a Safety-Critical Medical assessment
Vital Signs: Blood pressure, heart rate
Physical Evaluation: Assesses overall health, mobility, and fitness to meet the physical demands of the job, including height and weight.
Communication Assessment: Evaluates ability to effectively communicate and understand job instructions.
Mental Health Assessment: Conducted only if it is mentioned on the medical questionnaire.
Vision Assessment: Evaluates visual acuity.
Hearing Assessment: Evaluates hearing ability. Hearing loss must not exceed 30db averaged over frequencies ( applicable to NWR regulations)
Colour Vision Test: Required for roles where colour differentiation is critical (Essential for some roles, especially the rail industry).
HAVS Assessment: Hand-Arm Vibration Syndrome assessment for roles involving exposure to hand-transmitted vibrations.
Spirometry: Measures pulmonary function, specifically airflow volume and velocity.
Occupational Health Physician Referral: If further evaluation is needed, a referral will be sent to our occupational health physician.