Onsite ILO screening · Victoria
Onsite ILO Chest X-Rays in Victoria
ILOXAUS brings mobile, onsite ILO chest X-rays to workplaces across Victoria. Rather than sending your crew to a clinic, our unit travels to your site, images workers one at a time between tasks, and every film is classified to the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses by a NIOSH-certified B Reader radiologist.
Why Victorian employers screen on site
Victoria’s respirable crystalline silica risk sits in two broad places: the tunnelling and civil programme reshaping metropolitan Melbourne, and the stone, quarrying and manufacturing work spread through the regions. Both generate dust, and both run to tight schedules where losing half a shift per worker to a clinic appointment is genuinely expensive.
A clinic ILO chest X-ray costs roughly $120, but the travel, lost shifts and roster juggling around it usually cost more than the scan itself. Screening on site removes that overhead. Workers are imaged in minutes, night shift crews are caught on the shift they are already rostered for, and the whole crew is finished in a single visit.
Industries we screen in Victoria
- Tunnelling, rail and civil infrastructure across metropolitan Melbourne
- Stonemasonry, benchtop fabrication and engineered stone removal
- Quarrying, sand extraction and hard rock operations
- Construction, demolition and refurbishment of older building stock
- Foundries, fabrication and manufacturing in the industrial corridors
- Power generation, earthworks and rehabilitation in the Latrobe Valley
Where we travel in Victoria
- Melbourne metropolitan area, including the western and northern growth corridors
- Geelong, the Bellarine and the Surf Coast
- Ballarat, Bendigo and central Victoria
- Latrobe Valley and Gippsland
- Shepparton and the Goulburn Valley
- Warrnambool and the south-west
- Mildura, Swan Hill and the Mallee
If a site sits off the road network, our Flight Ready unit travels by air with our team, so remote mobilisations and shutdown windows are still covered.
NIOSH-certified B Reader · ILO classification
Reports a NIOSH-certified B Reader stands behind
The reading matters as much as the image. Every X-ray we take is classified to the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses by a NIOSH-certified B Reader radiologist, the qualification recognised internationally for reading dust disease films. You can choose a single ILO read, or a dual read with adjudication where you want an added layer of certainty. Results are reported back to you and to your workers.
How a Victorian site visit runs
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Book a visit
Tell us your location, crew size and timeline, and we scope road or Flight Ready access.
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We come to you
The unit mobilises to your Victorian site by road, or is flown in for remote and offshore jobs.
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Screen on site
Chest X-rays are taken on location, worker by worker, with minimal downtime.
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ILO-classified results
A NIOSH-certified B Reader classifies each film and we report back to you and your workers.
Health monitoring duties in Victoria
WorkSafe Victoria administers occupational health and safety in the state, and the duties around silica dust have tightened considerably in recent years, including the national prohibition on engineered stone benchtops, panels and slabs. Where health monitoring is required for silica-exposed workers, a chest X-ray reported to the ILO classification is normally part of it, alongside a respiratory questionnaire, lung function testing and review by a registered medical practitioner.
We are not a substitute for advice from WorkSafe Victoria or your occupational physician. What we do is deliver the imaging and the classified report, on site and on your schedule, so that part of the programme is covered properly.
Frequently asked questions
Do you come to our site, or do workers have to visit a clinic?
Our mobile unit comes to you. We set up at your Victorian worksite and image your crew on location, between tasks, so nobody is sent offsite for half a day.
Who reads and classifies the X-rays?
Every film is classified against the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses by a NIOSH-certified B Reader radiologist. You can choose a single ILO read, or a dual read with adjudication for an added layer of certainty.
How long does screening take per worker?
A few minutes each. We screen the whole crew in one visit and work around your roster, including night shifts and shutdown windows.
Which parts of Victoria do you travel to?
Metro, regional and remote sites. Where a truck cannot reach, our Flight Ready unit travels by air with our team for remote, offshore and FIFO work.
What does onsite screening cost?
A clinic ILO chest X-ray is around $120 a head before you add travel, lost shifts and roster changes. We quote in writing for your job, priced on your location and crew size.
How do we get the results?
Once each film has been classified we report back to you and your workers, so the result can go straight into your health monitoring records.
Book onsite ILO chest X-rays in Victoria
Send through your site location and approximate crew size and we will come back with availability and a written quote priced to the job.
Or email booking@iloxaus.au