Employment Medical Advisory Service

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The bodies set up to ensure the satisfactory implementation and operation of the Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act 1974 (and the Employment Medical Advisory Service Act 1972) under Section 10 of the Act are the Health and Safety Commission and the Health and Safety Executive. 

Allows for the continuation of the Employment Medical Advisory Service. 

Part II of the Act allows for the continuation of the Employment Medical Advisory Service, defines the purpose and responsibilities of the service, allows for fees to be charged, for payments to be made and for the keeping of accounts. 

Employment Medical Advisory Service in 1972. This service, the nucleus of which was formed by the medical branch of the factory inspectorate, gives advice to employers, employees, trade unions and others on medical matters related to work. 

The American report prompted an investigation into VCM polymerisation in this country, that involved the TUC, CBI, Factory Inspectorate and Employment Medical Advisory Service. Attention was paid to methods of work, the reduction of concentration and exposure time, and the proper use of protective equipment. Immediately industry reduced the TLV from 200 ppm to 50 ppm, but subsequently the MEL has been set at 7 ppm for an 8-hour period and 3 ppm averaged over one year. By February 1975, a Code of Practice was published, and serves as a useful model for the control of a toxic substance in the work environment. This is currently under review. 

Employment Medical Advisory Service, St Hugh s House, Trinity Road, Bootle, Liverpool L20 3QY 051 951 4381... 

Employment Medical Advisory Service, Royston House, 34 Upper Queen Street, Belfast BT1 6FX 0232 233045 ext 58... 

Employers must also inform employees of the local address of the enforcing authority (either the HSE or the local authority) and the Employment Medical Advisory Service. This should be marked on the poster or supplied with the leaflet. 

The Employment Medical Advisory Service should function as part of the new... 

Part 1 covers health, safety and welfare in connection with work and the control of dangerous substances and emissions into the atmosphere Part 2 covers the Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS)... 

The address of the office of the employment medical advisory service for the area in which those premises are situated. 

EMAS Employment Medical Advisory Service LPG Liquefied Petroieum Gas... 

Occupational health practitioners liaise with a wide range of enforcement officers, such as medical and nursing advisers of the Employment Medical Advisory Service (EMAS), HSE inspectors, environmental health officers, planning officers and staff of the local Health Authority. They also liaise with local medical practitioners, keeping them informed of any health-related matters as far as they affect patients who may be employed by the particular organisation. 

The Employment Medical Advisory Service Department inaugurated in 1971 marks a significant step towards safeguarding the interests of people at work. The Service will focus the development of the occupational service in the UK and extend the range of medical advice available to industry from the Department of Employment and Productivity. It will advise industry and the professions on a much wider set of problems and type of work especially for the disabled and those who look after young people at work. 

In Britain, the estimation of blood lead is now common practice. Blood lead (PbB) estimations were performed on exposed workers by the Employment Medical Advisory Service from around 1974, in conjunction with the legally required haemoglobin estimation. PbB estimation at regular intervals for certain categories of lead worker became mandatory in 1980 (Control of Lead at Work Regulations, 1980). 

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