PetroMed conducts regular health surveillance of employees according to their department, location, risk exposure, and hazards. Employees in operations, maintenance, and those exposed to noise, vibration, gas, and dust receive annual health checks, while camp employees receive checks every two years. Health surveillance allows for early detection of work-related health issues through medical exams and tests and helps evaluate control measures. The goal is to identify any work-related illnesses by comparing current health data to previous years' and protecting employees by removing them from hazard sources if needed.

1. Occupational Health Surveillance
PetroMed will do regular Health Surveillance to employees in remote location according
to their department, location, risk assessment and exposure to Hazards.
Employees from Operation, Maintenance and those who have frequent Exposure to
Noise, Vibration, Gas and dust health surveillance will be made annually.
For the Camps employees health surveillance will be every two years.
Health surveillance is a system of ongoing health checks and often involves carrying out
some form of medical examination or test on employees who are exposed to substances
such as solvents, fumes, biological agents and other hazardous substances.
Health surveillance is important to enable early detection of ill-health effects or diseases
and also helps employers to evaluate their control measures and to educate employees.
The risk assessment will indicate where health surveillance may be needed.
The Aim of Health Surveillance to find out the work related ill health, by comparing their
finding with the previous year Health Data. Work Related ill health is any condition made
or worse by the work people do. Prevalent work-related ill-health issues include:

2. occupational hearing loss; hand-arm and whole body vibration syndrome; occupational
skin and lung diseases; occupational cancer; and blood borne viruses. Work-related ill-
health issues may be caused by physical health hazards (particularly noise and vibration)
or by hazardous chemical and biological agents.
The effect an occupation may have on a worker’s health will be dependent on many
factors, such as the: • Type of hazard, route of entry and its effect on the body.
• Frequency and duration of exposure to the hazard. • Sensitivity and susceptibility of the
person (e.g. previous exposure, existing ill-health conditions, level of fitness, etc.).
Health surveillance will allow: Identification of workers with Pre-existing damage. – New
damage (which may be work-related).
Removal/exclusion of such workers from Hazards sources (protecting them from further
injury).Investigation of Hazards controls to identify and rectify problems (protecting
others in the same work).
Key roles and benefits of occupational health surveillance:
• Identifying adverse health conditions which may be caused by exposure to substances
and agents hazardous to health.
• Identifying employees who have pre-existing damage or new damage (which may be
work-related) and removing/excluding such workers from the hazard (to protect them
from further damage to their health).
• Implementing any statutory health surveillance that is required and demonstrating
compliance with statutory requirements.
• Checking the long-term effectiveness of control measures to identify and rectify
problems (to protect others in the same work area).
• Demonstrating fitness to work where specific health criteria are required.
• Collecting data for detecting and evaluating health hazards