HAVS Initial Questionnaire

HAVS Initial Questionnaire V2.0

Please complete the following questions. The information will remain confidential to the Occupational Health service and will not be divulged to any other person without your consent.

Physical gender at birth

General Practitioner Information

Please complete for every role where you used vibrating tools.

Have you used vibrating tools in a previous role?

Have any of your hobbies, secondary jobs or military reserve training ever involved any of the following?

Working near vibrating machines
Working on buses, trucks or tractors
Working with pneumatic drills, chainsaws, drills, etc
Have you ever used hand held vibrating tools, machines or hand held processes in your job?
Do you have tingling of the fingers at any other time?
Do you wake at night with pain, tingling or numbness in your hand?
Do one or more of your fingers go numb more than 20 minutes after using vibrating equipment?
Do your fingers go white at any other time?
Are you experiencing any other problem with muscles or joints of the hands or arms?
Do you have difficulty picking up very small objects, e.g. screws or buttons or opening tight jars?
Have you ever had neck, arm or hand injury or operation?
Have you ever had any serious diseases of joints, skin, nerves, heart or blood vessels?
Are you on any long term medication?

DECLARATION

I certify that the answers to the above questions are correct to the best of my knowledge. I understand that no medical details will be divulged without my permission to any person outside the Occupational Health Service, but an opinion about my fitness to work will be given to Management.