Given the fact that we are looking at the psychosocial aspects of work nowadays this is a very important factor. I remember some companies in Germany in the mid 90's setting a self destruct function on the bosses email systems. That way if they tried to contact staff out of hours it was automatically deleted. This was to try and reduce stress factors on staff and allow them time off to recuperate from work. As someone who deals with the international set I get emails in at all times of the day so have set my system up to a "do not disturb" mode. That way at 10 pm my phone stops all emails (except my exemptions ie family) and doesn't reactivate emails, messaging etc till 6 am. I know a lot of other professionals like myself that have activated this feature on their devices to guarantee down time. Up to the individual what they set, and it doesn't stop you interacting with things, just means you're not being pinged or alerted to new messages.

The costs charged here are ridiculous and at times unjustifiable. A European standard that I use (NZ/AS has none on this subject) would cost me NZ$600 if I buy it via NZ standards, the same standard bought from overseas costs NZ$15. How can the cost be so vastly different when it is the same document. Maybe time that NZ Standards were called to account re price gouging.

If you'r doing pre and regular health monitoring then you should have an exit one, otherwise how do you know that subsequent changes against the baseline did not occur in that last year.

Organisations like Defence, Police and high risk industries that have pre-employment medicals normally carry out exit ones just to cross the T's and dot the i's.

Hi Folks, I'm Derek Miller but answer to most names. I'm a freelance occupational hygienist and member of the HASANZ Governance Group and on the board of the Asian Network for Occupational Hygienists. Look forward to seeing what chats come up as there's always something new to learn or think about.