Occupational Health

Services & Tests

Occupational
Health Services
And Tests

Lancet Laboratories is a leading pathology laboratory service provider, renowned for its commitment to delivering high-quality diagnostic services. With a network of branches across multiple countries, Lancet Laboratories boasts state-of-the-art equipment and a team of experienced professionals dedicated to advancing medical diagnostics. One of the key services offered by Lancet Laboratories is a comprehensive range of occupational health tests, designed to ensure the well-being of employees and promote a healthy work environment.

Lancet Laboratories’ SANAS accredited Occupational and Industrial Health Unit offers comprehensive testing, monitoring, and consulting services for various industries throughout Africa.

Services provided for Corporate Companies

  • • Drug abuse
  • • Alcohol abuse
  • • HIV
  • • TB
  • • Glucose and Cholesterol
  • • Cardiovascular Disease monitoring
  • • Liver function test
  • • Pregnancy tests and other pathological diagnostic test

Our goal is to provide service of unmatched standards to all our clients across all industries. Lancet Laboratories prides itself on diagnostic excellence and strives to provide results of the highest accuracy and precision.

 

Our online pathology report viewing system allows us to ensure that results get to our clients in a timeous manner, so action can be taken sooner. To further ensure that we give outstanding service, we have a team of nurses that can visit clients, at their company sites, to draw bloods and assist with the sample collection process.

 

Our team of dedicated drivers also add to the value of maintaining the quality of service and turn-around times by understanding the importance of picking up the samples within the set time.

 

We offer wellness days to our clients, where we educate and bring awareness to employees on specific health topics and/or diseases/conditions. We do onsite point of care testing, where we do rapid glucose and cholesterol tests. This helps with ensuring that employees remain actively aware of their health status. 

Services provided for Industry Sectors

  • • Biological Monitoring
  • • Allergy Tests
  • • TB Tests
  • • Toxicology
  • • Drug of abuse
  • • Lung function tests
  • • Lead and other metal exposures
  • • Chemical exposure
  • • Environmental swab testing

Our team has extensive experience in the design of new protocols for the biomonitoring of new compounds, not specified in the South African Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993.

We pride ourselves in providing excellent service nationwide and around the clock. We have courier services, nationwide, for sample collection.

We can provide a traveling nurse to draw bloods on site if/when there is a need.

We have a team of Pathologists that may be called upon for discussions relating to the tests results and to offer guidance.

 

Benefits of Occupational Health Tests

  • • Enhanced Productivity
  • • Reduced Healthcare Costs
  • • Positive Work Environment
  • • Early Detection of Health Issues
  • • Improved Quality of Life
  • • Increased Awareness

Industries Serviced

Test offered per industry

food industries

Food Industry

  • • Hand and Skin swabs
  • • Stool sample or rectal swab for salmonella/shigella
  • • TB Testing
  • • Allergy Testing
Agriculture

Agriculture Industry

  • • Monitoring of pesticide exposure in urine and/or blood
  • • Cholinesterase activity monitoring
Construction and infrastructure

Construction and Infrastructure Industry

  • • Lead exposure
  • • Infectious disease monitoring
oil and gas

Oil and Gas Industry

  • • Monitoring of toxic chemical exposure

Metal Industry

  • • Exposure to heavy metals
Chemical Industries

Chemical Industry

  • • Exposure to hazardous chemicals
  • • Respiratory
  • • Cancer Surveillance
Mining Sectors

Mining Sectors

  • • Lung function tests

Biological Monitoring

Biological Monitoring is the measurement and assessment of workplace agents or their metabolites either in tissues, secreta, excreta, expired air or any combination of these to evaluate exposure and health risk compared to an appropriate reference.