Onsite ILO screening · Canberra & ACT
Onsite ILO Chest X-Rays in Canberra and the ACT
ILOXAUS provides mobile, onsite ILO chest X-rays for worksites in Canberra and across the ACT. We bring the unit to your site, image your crew between tasks, and every X-ray is classified to the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses by a NIOSH-certified B Reader radiologist.
Why Canberra worksites screen on site
The ACT is a construction economy rather than a mining one, and that shapes the dust risk. Concrete cutting, grinding and drilling, light rail and civil earthworks, commercial fitouts, demolition and the territory’s long-running loose-fill asbestos legacy all put crews in contact with respirable dust. Stone benchtop fabrication and installation adds another exposed group working in small workshops.
Because most ACT jobs are tightly programmed and often inside city limits, pulling workers out to a clinic is disruptive out of all proportion to the imaging itself. Screening on site keeps the programme moving, catches everyone in one visit, and avoids calling people in on days off.
Industries we screen in the ACT
- Civil construction, light rail and major earthworks
- Commercial building, fitout and refurbishment
- Demolition, asbestos removal and remediation work
- Concrete cutting, grinding, drilling and dry sweeping trades
- Stonemasonry, benchtop fabrication and engineered stone removal
- Quarrying and aggregate supply in the surrounding region
- Facilities, plant maintenance and shutdown crews
Where we travel in the ACT and surrounds
- Canberra city and the parliamentary triangle
- Gungahlin, Belconnen, Woden and Tuggeranong
- Hume, Fyshwick and Mitchell industrial areas
- Molonglo Valley and the western growth corridor
- Queanbeyan, Jerrabomberra and Bungendore
- Yass, Goulburn and the surrounding southern tablelands
Because ACT sites sit close to regional NSW, we can often combine a Canberra visit with nearby cross-border work in the same mobilisation. If your operation reaches genuinely remote ground, our Flight Ready unit travels by air with our team. Industry guides: stone and benchtop work, quarries, tunnelling and construction, mining and foundries and manufacturing.
NIOSH-certified B Reader · ILO classification
ILO classification by a NIOSH-certified B Reader
A chest X-ray only becomes a useful health monitoring record once it has been properly classified. Every X-ray we take is read against the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses by a NIOSH-certified B Reader radiologist, the qualification recognised internationally for dust disease reading. Single ILO reads and dual reads with adjudication are both available.
How an ACT site visit runs
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Book a visit
Tell us the site address, crew size and timeline, and we confirm access and parking requirements.
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We come to you
The unit mobilises to your Canberra or regional site by road.
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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 X-ray and we report back to you and your workers.
Health monitoring duties in the ACT
WorkSafe ACT is the territory work health and safety regulator. The ACT applies the model WHS framework, including the national prohibition on engineered stone benchtops, panels and slabs and the duties that apply when workers process crystalline silica substances. The territory also has additional requirements around asbestos, reflecting the loose-fill insulation history in Canberra housing stock.
Where health monitoring is required, chest imaging reported to the ILO classification is normally part of the assessment alongside a questionnaire, lung function testing and medical review. Confirm your obligations with WorkSafe ACT or your occupational physician; we deliver the imaging and the classified report at your site.
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 ACT 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 X-ray 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 Canberra and the ACT 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?
We give you one written quote for the whole visit, based on your site and crew size, and getting our unit to you is already included. There are no separate travel charges, and screening on site saves your business the travel time and lost shifts of sending workers to a clinic.
How do we get the results?
Once each X-ray 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 Canberra
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