Occupational Health Information and Guidance
To support Rio Tinto's standards and targets, a comprehensive set of Occupational Health Information and Guidance notes (OHIGs) were developed. To date, there are some 50 OHIGs, covering such diverse topics as health performance indicators, occupational hygiene risk assessment tools, occupational hygiene statistical tools, reproductive health hazard management, management of shift work and fatigue, management of stress by promoting healthy work, and carbon monoxide, diesel fume, noise, vibration, heat stress and other potential exposures.
These OHIGs and other leading practice documents from various Rio Tinto operations are available to all Group companies on the Group intranet system. The portal also contains a collaborative forum where operations can post leading practice information or ask for advice from other sites. Questions regarding health standards for contractors, health aspects in purchasing criteria, pregnancy and occupational health issues, fitness for work testing, and assessment of noise exposure in truck cabs, are but a few of the many requests for advice responded to. The forum is also used to post and track comments on revisions of the OHIGs, which are updated regularly.
The OHIGs are living documents, in that they are continually reviewed and updated to provide the best source of accurate information and current perspectives to operations on the control of health risks. They describe the risk of occurrence of the various health hazards, potential effects, associated hazards, exposure standards, workplace monitoring and health surveillance requirements, exposure controls, and other relevant sources of information.
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