Medical Check-ups in Fields Dealing with Hazardous Substances

More Safety when Dealing with Hazardous Substances

Whether it’s solvents, lead, or feed dust - if your employees have to deal with toxic, hazardous or explosive materials at work, you have to be able to assess their risk potential. Our occupational physician can examine your employees and advise them on health risks associated with dealing with hazardous substances. Blood tests and biomonitoring are often part of the medical check-up.

Benefits at a Glance

With TÜV Rheinland’s screening for compliance with hazardous substance regulations, you:

  • Avoid causing or aggravating ill health among your employees due to their activities
  • Reduce downtimes caused by accidents
  • Fulfill all legal requirements
  • Gain legal peace of mind vis-à-vis occupational safety authorities and professional associations
  • Benefit from the high level of training of our personnel
  • Save time and money through our research facilities in several locations, efficient management, and short-term appointments
  • Benefit from one-stop shop service - for example, when assessing risk assessment and with our online system ToGs

Our Approach

Based on your risk assessment and your workplace concentration of the hazardous substance, our experts determine whether screening is mandatory in your company for your employees or whether you – as an employer – have to offer voluntary check-ups. After we arrange an appointment by telephone, we conduct the check-up for your employee in an occupational health center in your area. We then issue an occupational certificate of health.

Examination Schedule

The schedule varies according to the type of hazardous substance. Trade association principles for medical examinations regulate the scope and deadlines of the screening.

Mandatory or Voluntary?

Mandatory Check-Ups

  • Tasks involving hazardous substances, if the occupational exposure limit is not adhered to as stated in hazardous substances regulations; or if the hazardous substances are absorbed through skin, that is, pose a health hazard through direct skin contact.
  • Other activities involving hazardous substances, such as wet work for more than 4 hours.
  • Working with hazardous substances listed in hazardous substance regulations (Part 1 of Verordnung zur arbeitsmedizinischen Vorsorge, or ).

Voluntary Check-Ups

  • Tasks dealing with hazardous substances, if there has been exposure to hazardous materials listed in the mandatory examinations.
  • Other activities involving hazardous substances, such as pest control and fumigation.
  • Activities listed in occupational health regulations (Part 1, Paragraph 2 of Verordnung zur arbeitsmedizinischen Vorsorge).

Legal Standards

  • Hazardous substances regulations (Gefahrstoffverordnung, or GefStoffV)
  • Regulation on occupational health screening (Verordnung zur arbeitsmedizinischen Vorsorge of 18 December 2008, or ArbMedVV)