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introduced new problems?
    * Have all hazards been identified?
    * Have new work methods, new equipment or chemicals made the job safer?
    * Are safety procedures being followed?
    * Has instruction and training provided to workers on how to work safely been successful?
    * Are workers actively involved in identifying hazards and possible control measures?
      Are they openly raising health and safety concerns and reporting problems promptly?
    * Are the frequency and severity of health and safety incidents reducing over time?
    * If new legislation or new information becomes available, does it indicate current control measures may no longer be the most effective?
If problems are found, go back through the risk management steps, review your information
and make further decisions about risk control.

Health monitoring
Regulation 368 A person conducting a business or undertaking must ensure health monitoring is provided to a worker carrying out work for the business or undertaking if:
    * the worker is carrying out ongoing work at a workplace using, handling, generating or storing hazardous chemicals and there is a significant risk to the worker's health because of exposure to a hazardous chemical referred to in Schedule 14, table 14.1, column 2, or
    * the person identifies that because of ongoing work carried out by a worker using, handling, generating or storing hazardous chemicals there is a significant risk that the worker will be exposed to a hazardous chemical (other than a hazardous chemical referred to in Schedule 14, table 14.1) and either:
       * valid techniques are available to detect the effect on the worker's health, or
       * a valid way of determining biological exposure to the hazardous chemical is available and it is uncertain, on reasonable grounds, whether the exposure to the hazardous chemical has resulted in the biological exposure standard being exceeded.

Health monitoring of a person means monitoring the person to identify changes in the person's health status because of exposure to certain substances. It involves the collection of data in order to evaluate the effects of exposure and to determine whether or not that the absorbed dose is within safe levels. This allows decisions to be made about implementing ways to eliminate or minimise the worker's risk of exposure, for example reassigning a worker to other duties that involve less exposure or improving control measures.
Health monitoring, which may include biological monitoring, can assist in:
    * establishing whether an identifiable disease or health effect known to be linked to exposure to dust, chemicals or noise has occurred, and
    * determining levels of toxic substances in the body so that informed decisions can be made about the effectiveness of control measures and whether any further action needs to be taken (e.g. a