Mobile workplace health checks

Employers such as construction firms, warehouses, farms, manufacturers, transport companies and care providers, plus labour hire and recruitment agencies.

Fixed price per worker for each type of check, or a day rate for on-site clinics, with repeat annual contracts for ongoing health monitoring.

• Registered health qualification and clinical experience
• Careful record keeping
• Explaining results clearly to employers and workers
• Organising schedules and travel

• You need current registration with AHPRA for regulated health professions, check what your scope allows
• Fitness-for-work decisions may need a doctor to sign off, check where your scope ends and how you will refer
• Health information is sensitive, check your obligations under the Privacy Act and state health records laws
• Some hazards, such as silica, noise and certain chemicals, have specific health monitoring rules under state work health and safety laws, check with your state regulator
• Professional indemnity and public liability insurance, plus calibration and maintenance of testing equipment
• Drug and alcohol testing has its own standards and training, check before offering it

Estimates suggest startup costs typically sit around $3,000 to $15,000, depending on the testing equipment you buy, insurance, travel set-up and software. Treat this as a guide and cost the services you plan to offer first.

Monthly revenue is typically estimated at around $2,000 to $10,000, depending on how many employers you win, the checks you offer and your travel time. Hours typically start at around 10 per week.

Check your AHPRA registration and scope, when a doctor must sign off fitness-for-work decisions, privacy and health records obligations, state health monitoring rules, insurance, equipment calibration, and training standards for drug and alcohol testing.