The pre-employment health assessment forms part of a screening process designed to ensure that all new staff are fit to perform the duties and tasks of the job they have been offered.
The information collected during the assessment will be appropriate to the area in which employment is offered. Your future manager has indicated which hazards and potential risks you may be exposed to and appropriate screening will be carried out accordingly.
In the event that you have any medical or health related condition(s) that are:
- likely to affect or limit your ability to carry out the full requirements of the position you have been provisionally offered, or
- that may be aggravated by the tasks of that position, and/or
- you are certified as being 'unfit for work' by a registered medical practitioner during a pre-employment assessment.
You accept that Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora may elect to withdraw the offer of employment or terminate your employment (where the offer has already been accepted by you), unless the position can be reasonably altered or the workplace modified in order to reduce the risk of harm or injury to yourself or others.
Clinical employees are reminded to consider their own risk of infection with blood-borne pathogens (Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and HIV) and the associated risk of transmitting infection to patients. Professional bodies (such as NZ Medical Association, NZNO, and Australasian College of Surgeons) have statements relating to this, and workers should acquaint themselves with the appropriate association policies. Any employee who is a carrier of a blood-borne disease and knowingly exposes their patients to a risk of infection based on their own risk assessment, without seeking further counselling, could be open to disciplinary proceedings.
I declare to the best of my knowledge that the information I have given in this questionnaire is correct. I understand that giving false or misleading information or suppressing information may be a reason for disciplinary action to be taken against me if I am employed by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora.
I understand that the information related to health screening will be placed on my occupational health file. I have a right to access this information and to obtain copies of my test results.
I consent to information on my personal immunity status and immunisation to be made available to my manager for the purposes of assisting with managing worker and patient safety, and for emergency planning and response purposes.
The information will be collected in accordance with the Privacy Act 1993 and the Health Information Privacy Code 1994. This declaration will be treated as a confidential medical record by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Health & Safety Service who will give recommendations to the relevant manager regarding fitness to work only. No medical details (excluding immunity/immunisation status in the above paragraph) will be divulged to managers or any other employees in the organisation without the employee's permission. If a workplace injury occurs in the future, insurers may, with the employee's consent, request health information contained in this form to determine eligibility for cover.
The information will be used by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora Health and Safety Service to identify and record the health status of personnel, fitness for work, identify reasonable workplace modification and provide a database for future occupational health issues.
While it is convenient to send information electronically and most of the information may not be highly sensitive, transmission of health information may not be secure and it is against Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora's privacy policy to transmit personal or sensitive information via unsecured external email. Once an email leaves a server it can be routed across multiple servers, maybe in several countries before delivery to your mail server. It is not known where the email will travel, whose servers it may cross or how long it will be stored on those servers. There is a risk that unless email messages are encrypted, confidential information and attachments sent via email could be intercepted, accessed and read by third parties. If you have ticked 'yes' and consented for health information to be sent to your private email address this confirms you are aware of the risks outlined above and that, whilst being aware of the risks, you wish to continue to have your information conveyed to you via email. This confirms your authorisation of correspondence via unsecured email.