PSS – Medical surveillance, case management, and case investigation

Good Practice Guidance – Medical Surveillance and Case Management

It is essential that facilities where workers may be exposed to chloroplatinates have a medical surveillance programme in place to monitor the health of potentially exposed workers and to identify as early as possible instances where a worker has become sensitised. Such surveillance maximises the potential to identify workers that have become sensitised early on and enables risk management measures such as redeployment to be taken that minimises the potential for the sensitisation to progress to symptomatic allergy and especially occupational asthma.

Through its Health and Environment Science Committee, the IPA has prepared a Good Practice Guidance document on Medical Surveillance and Case Management of workers exposed to chloroplatinates. 

PSS Case Investigation – example template

Although relatively rare nowadays, cases of PSS do still occur. When this happens, it is good practice to conduct an investigation to try to identify likely root causes and contributing factors. Through its Health and Environment Science Committee, the IPA has prepared an example Occupational Health Condition – Investigation Record Form for Platinum Salt Sensitisation. The example template is intended to assist companies in designing and implementing appropriate procedures and processes for conducting investigations when cases of PSS are identified.