Relevant Legislation
As part of a health promotion effort, individual health checks are a method chosen by more and more Danish companies. The reason for choosing a Health Check is typically presented by the company’s HR and / or work safety organization. The purpose is usually a combination of the company’s need for an attractive profile, combined with sickness absence reduction and the employees’ desire for health promotion as part of the employment.
However, health checks are often also based on the existing legal requirements applicable to companies that have employees with night work or who work in noise, dust or certain dangerous substances such as lead or mineral wool.
The Director of the Occupational Safety and Health Authority may decide that a company, as a condition of employing employees at work that is at risk to their health, must ensure that they undergo occupational medical examinations or are offered such examinations, periodically and if necessary even before commencement of work.
Examinations under this Executive Order must be organized and conducted with a view to preventing and combating work-related disorders and must be carried out by experts.That is why we employ Nurses.
Individual results of the Examination must not be left to the employer, and the person conducting Examinations must, as a general rule, keep the examination results for an employee, and the records based on them, for at least 40 years after the impact during work has ceased.
The regulation can be found here
The guide describes the health problems that night work can cause and the current rules on health checks during night work, including the obligation to inform the Danish Working Environment Authority on health checks. Ref. Section 6 of Act No. 248 requires employees to be offered free health checks before beginning work on night work, and thereafter with regular periods of less than 3 years. Many labor agreements, including CO-Industry, however, has reduced the interval to 2 years.
Act no. 248 can be found here.
The Guide can be found here.
Employees who are exposed to noise that exceeds a noise exposure of 85 dB(A) or peak values of pulses of 137 dB(C) must have access to an occupational medical examination.
Employees who are exposed to noise that exceeds a noise exposure of 80 dB(A) or peak values of pulses of 135 dB(C) must have access to a Hearing Examination, including an audiometric examination, if the workplace assessment, cf. §§ 4-7, shows risks due to noise.
Reference is also made to the Order on Occupational Medical Examinations under the Working Environment Act 1165 above.
The Regulation may be found here.
The Guide can be found here.
The AT-Guide includes work for an employer that assesses the risk of exposure to metallic lead and its ionic compounds. In addition, the Executive Order on Occupational Medical Examinations applies under the Working Environment Act 1165 above.
Every six months, the employer must monitor the concentration of lead in the blood of the employees. If the results of two consecutive measurements show blood lead values below 20 µg lead / 100 ml blood (1.0 µmol / l), no further regular blood lead levels should be examined if the working conditions are the same.
The Guide can be found here
Employees must have access to a health examination before they start working with asbestos or asbestos-containing material, and if necessary at regular intervals thereafter and at least once every 3 years.
The guide can be found here