Services

Biological Health Surveillance

Safework Health's biological monitoring service protects workers from hazardous chemicals.;

NATA Accredited Service

Health Monitoring

Safework Health’s NATA accredited urine health monitoring service helps businesses to detect workers’ exposure to isocyanates and phenols.

Biological monitoring for workers who use hazardous chemicals helps businesses keep their employees safe and healthy. It also enables them to comply with occupational health and safety regulations.

Safework Health services every state and territory in Australia, while ensuring a rapid 5-day turnaround for results.

This broad coverage grants our clients enhanced accessibility, allowing them to promptly take corrective measures in response to any potential exposures and thereby safeguarding their workers’ health and safety effectively.

Safework Health provides urine drug testing in the workplace;

Our Approach And Testing Method

We believe that result turn-around times are critical for occupational health surveillance programs and their effectiveness to monitor workers’ health.

Consequently, we offer a 5-day turn-around time for the isocyanate or phenol exposure for your occupational setting, allowing you to promptly implement corrective measures.

We use urine testing to assess the level of exposure to hazardous chemicals. Urine testing is a cost-effective, reliable and fast way to monitor workers’ health.

Fast results

Guaranteed 5-day turnaround time for results from the time a sample reaches our laboratory.

National provider

Cover all states and territories in Australia, providing greater accessibility.

Certified laboratory

Accredited by NATA, providing assurance that our laboratory meets the highest standards for quality and reliability.

Efficient testing method

Urine testing is a cost-effective, accurate and fast way to monitor workers’ health.

Why Safework Health?

Our Brisbane laboratory is a pioneer in the industry, being one of the first commercial laboratories in Australia to be awarded NATA accreditation for determining isocyanate and phenol exposure in the workplace.

Safework Health's health surveillance service protects workers from hazardous chemicals.;

What Are Isocyanates?

Isocyanates, known as diisocyanates (TDI, MDI and HDI), are a group of chemicals that are widely used in occupational settings.

They are commonly used in the production of polyurethane-based foams, coatings and adhesives, spray painting/coating, in the automotive industry, and during work activities in mining industries.

Isocyanates are known to induce various health effects, including skin-and respiratory tract sensitisation resulting in allergic dermatitis, conjunctivitis and asthma. Breathing in isocyanate is one of the leading causes of occupational asthma in Australia.

What Are Phenols?

Phenol is used as a general disinfectant, as a reagent in chemical analysis and for the manufacture of artificial resins, medical and industrial organic compounds and dyes.

Industrial uses of phenol include the manufacture of paints and paint removers, the creation of fertilisers and explosives, textiles, drugs and pharmaceuticals.

Long-term or chronic exposure to phenol leads to systemic problems like vertigo, digestive difficulties, skin eruptions, nervous problems and headaches, as well as liver or kidney damage.

Given this, it is therefore important that in the affected industries, phenol levels be monitored on a regular basis to ensure worker health and safety.

Who Needs Monitoring?

To ensure workplace safety, it is important and a mandated requirement in some Australian jurisdictions to properly monitor the exposure to isocyanates and phenols due to their hazardous nature to human health.

In Australia, health surveillance for isocyanates is legislated. If you use isocyanate-based products, you will need a health surveillance scheme. A health surveillance scheme for isocyanates typically involves monitoring workers’ health at regular intervals.

Phenol exposure is subject to Exposure Standard Documentation guidelines issued by the Australian Government statutory agency Safe Work Australia.