Examination Type
Definition
The categorization of health surveillance protocols using the time periods stipulated for performing or repeating these protocols.
Statutory industrial hygiene and safety rulings and the regulations for the prevention of industrial accidents require employers to perform occupational health surveillance protocols such as initial, periodic, and past exposure examinations. Each of these health surveillance protocols must take place within certain legally stipulated time periods.
In the SAP system, the following health surveillance protocols are set up as examination types:
Initial examination
Periodic examination
Past exposure examination
Use
Examination types are assigned to a health surveillance protocol and to a health surveillance protocol category . This ensures that the system can determine which health surveillance protocols must be performed for a certain person within the legally stipulated periods.
Examination types are edited in Customizing for
Occupational Health
.