Crystalline Silica Health Surveillance
Onsite Crystalline Silica Health Surveillance Services
Boncentric has extensive experience delivering onsite respiratory health surveillance programs to crystalline silica exposed workers across Australia.
As a mobile health service provider, Boncentric brings the required medical resourcing and equipment directly to your site, helping significantly reduce travel and lost productivity costs for your workforce. Our crystalline silica screening program is overseen by leading physicians and cutting-edge software applications that together provide unprecedented efficiency and clinical oversight for employers and workers alike.
Boncentric has extensive experience in delivering mobile spirometry and partners with accredited radiology providers to ensure the highest standards of respiratory testing for crystalline silica exposed workers. Our Examining Medical Officers and Supervising Doctors are leaders in their field, supported by senior specialists in radiology, occupational health, and respiratory medicine. These experts bring extensive experience in dust-related lung diseases, strengthening the quality and reliability of our crystalline silica health surveillance program.

Advantages of partnering with Boncentric for Onsite Crystalline Silica Screening:
- All-in-One Service: A comprehensive, “one-stop-shop” solution for crystalline silica screening at your site.
- Cost and Time Efficiency: Reduce travel expenses and minimize productivity loss by providing respiratory medicals directly onsite.
- Custom Software Advantage: Benefit from bespoke software that enhances administrative efficiency, clinical quality and reporting.
- Experienced Clinical Team: Access a team with extensive experience in occupational and respiratory health.
- Trusted Expertise: Partner with a provider that has overseen more than 10,000 respiratory medicals.
Respiratory health surveillance requirements for Crystalline Silica Exposed Workers
In accordance with Safe Work Australia regulations, workers exposed to crystalline silica must undergo regular respiratory health assessments, especially those performing tasks such as cutting, grinding, or polishing silica-containing materials. Health surveillance must be overseen by a qualified medical professional and conducted periodically, based on the level of risk and extent of exposure to respirable crystalline silica dust.
Crystalline Silica health surveillance examinations generally include the following components:
- Respiratory questionnaire
- ILO chest X-ray read by a qualified b-reader radiologist
- Spirometry test
- Chest examination
- Further follow-up tests if required (complex lung test, HRCT scan and / or respiratory specialist review)
Who is eligible to complete a Crystalline Silica medical?
The recommended schedule for health monitoring of crystalline silica exposure is as follows:
- Pre-Employment: A baseline crystalline silica medical assessment should be completed before employment to establish a reference point for future comparisons of lung function changes.
- Periodic (Annually): An annual crystalline silica medical assessment is required while the employee remains in the hazardous work environment.
- Post-Employment: A final crystalline silica medical assessment should be conducted once the employee leaves the hazardous environment.
Crystalline Silica Health Surveillance Service Locations
As a mobile service provider, Boncentric has the capacity to perform onsite Crystalline Silica medicals anywhere in Australia. Boncentric brings the required medical resourcing and equipment directly to your site, helping significantly reduce travel and lost productivity costs for your workforce.
Partner with one of Boncentric’s Experienced Supervising Doctors
Respiratory health surveillance programs for crystalline silica exposed workers must be supervised by an appropriately qualified Supervising Doctor. Their responsibility is to ensure that examinations are carried out by experienced and qualified physicians and to report the examination findings to the Person conducting a business or undertaking (PCBU).
Boncentric offers a team of highly experienced Supervising Doctors to oversee health surveillance examinations for Crystalline Silica workers. If you are interested in an onsite respiratory health surveillance program for your organisation, please contact us to find out more about this service.
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Participant Testimonials
Current Crystalline Silica Worker Very knowledgeable staff.
Current Crystalline Silica Worker It certainly helped having the service in our work depot as it was easily accessible saving considerable time.
Current Crystalline Silica Worker Team conducting the assessments were very professional.
Current Crystalline Silica Worker Queensland Health should have this done to everyone
Current Crystalline Silica Worker Always professional and friendly.
Current Crystalline Silica Worker This was a far better experience than offsite testing clinics.
Current Crystalline Silica Worker This is perfect for the corporate environment and also remote communities with a lack of access.
Current Crystalline Silica Worker All staff were pleasant and easy to talk to.