Occupational Health Chest X-ray Services Across England & Wales

Workers in construction, manufacturing, ceramics, quarrying, foundries, brick and tile production, slate work, and stonework face daily exposure to hazardous dusts — including respirable crystalline silica (RCS), coal dust, and other fine particulates that cause irreversible occupational lung diseases. Periodic chest X-ray surveillance is a cornerstone of any compliant health surveillance programme, enabling early detection of silicosis, pneumoconiosis, and occupational asthma before they become life-limiting.

Why Occupational Health Chest X-rays Matter in High-Dust Industries

Radpid Diagnostics is a specialist provider of mobile occupational health chest X-ray services across England and Wales. Our HCPC-registered radiographers attend your site with portable digital X-ray equipment, delivering fast, accurate imaging with same-day or next-day consultant-led reporting — all without your workforce leaving the workplace.

Whether you operate a quarry in South Wales, a network of construction sites across the Midlands, or a ceramics facility in Staffordshire, Radpid Diagnostics can design a health surveillance imaging programme that fits your operational schedule and meets your legal obligations under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) and associated HSE guidance.

Respirable crystalline silica is generated whenever silica-containing materials — including sandstone, granite, slate, concrete, and ceramic products — are cut, drilled, ground, or crushed. Prolonged inhalation causes silicosis, a progressive and incurable fibrotic lung disease. The HSE identifies RCS as one of the most significant occupational health risks in Great Britain, with an estimated 500 deaths per year attributable to past silica dust exposure.

Respirable Crystalline Silica (RCS) Surveillance: A Legal Obligation

Employers in industries with significant RCS exposure are required under COSHH to implement health surveillance for workers at risk. Chest X-ray surveillance — typically using the ILO International Classification of Radiographs of Pneumoconioses — is the primary imaging tool for detecting early parenchymal changes consistent with silicosis and other dust-related lung diseases.

Radpid Diagnostics provides ILO-classified chest X-ray imaging with consultant-led reporting by accredited radiologists with specialist experience in occupational lung disease. Reports are structured to integrate with your occupational health records and support HSE compliance documentation.

Our mobile occupational health chest X-ray service covers a wide range of high-dust industries throughout England and Wales, including: construction and civil engineering (groundworkers, tunnellers, demolition operatives); quarrying and aggregate extraction (limestone, sandstone, granite, and slate); ceramics and pottery manufacturing (Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and South Wales); foundries and metal casting; brick and tile production; stonework and monumental masonry; heavy manufacturing with significant process dust exposure; and coal and mineral extraction.

Industries We Serve Across England and Wales

We work directly with occupational health providers, EHS managers, HR departments, and health and safety consultants to schedule imaging sessions that minimise disruption to production. Our service is available for one-off health surveillance campaigns, annual surveillance programmes, and pre-employment chest X-ray assessments.

Regional coverage includes Greater London, the South East, the East of England, the East Midlands, the West Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, the North West, the North East, Wales, and the South West — ensuring employers across England and Wales can access compliant occupational chest X-ray services without transporting workers to hospital radiology departments.

A key barrier to effective occupational health chest X-ray surveillance is the time and cost of sending workers off-site for imaging. Hospital radiology departments are not designed for occupational health throughput, and waiting times can delay surveillance programmes and create scheduling difficulties for employers managing large workforces.

Mobile Chest X-ray: Reducing Worker Downtime and Disruption

Radpid Diagnostics eliminates this barrier. Our mobile radiographers attend your site at a time that suits your schedule, set up a temporary imaging suite in a welfare unit, meeting room, or designated health and safety area, and image your workforce efficiently — typically at a rate of 10 to 50 workers per session, depending on session length and workforce size.

Workers return to their duties immediately after imaging. There is no travel time, no waiting room, and no disruption to shift patterns. For employers running large-scale health surveillance campaigns — such as an annual RCS surveillance programme across a multi-site quarrying operation — this delivers a significant reduction in lost productive time.

All chest X-ray examinations performed by Radpid Diagnostics comply fully with the Ionising Radiation (Medical Exposure) Regulations 2017 (IR(ME)R 2017). Our radiographers are HCPC-registered and hold current professional indemnity insurance. Referrals are accepted from occupational health physicians, occupational health nurses, and other authorised referrers under your organisation's IR(ME)R 2017 employer's procedures.

IR(ME)R 2017 Compliance and HCPC-Registered Clinicians

We operate under a robust radiation protection framework, including compliance with the Ionising Radiations Regulations 2017 (IRR17), calibrated and quality-assured digital radiography equipment, and adherence to diagnostic reference levels for chest radiography. Equipment is regularly serviced and quality-assured in line with guidance from the British Institute of Radiology and the Society of Radiographers.

Consultant-led reporting is provided by accredited radiologists with specialist experience in occupational lung disease. Reports are delivered electronically on the same day or next day, structured to support ILO classification, occupational health record-keeping, and HSE compliance documentation. Urgent clinical findings are communicated directly to the referring occupational health professional.

Radpid Diagnostics works alongside occupational health providers, EHS consultancies, and in-house occupational health teams to deliver imaging that integrates seamlessly with existing health surveillance programmes. Imaging data can be provided in formats compatible with occupational health management systems, and our consultant-led reports support the clinical decision-making of occupational health physicians and nurses.

Seamless Integration with Your Health Surveillance Programme

For employers without an existing occupational health provider, we can advise on structuring a compliant chest X-ray surveillance programme and provide referral pathway support. We work with a network of occupational health physicians who can provide clinical oversight and interpretation of surveillance results where required.

Our service is well-suited to occupational health providers managing multi-employer or multi-site contracts, where deploying mobile imaging across locations — from a quarry in North Wales to a construction site in Birmingham — offers a significant operational advantage over fixed-site imaging services.

Radpid Diagnostics operates a nationwide mobile occupational health chest X-ray service with deployment capability across England and Wales. Our base in Dartford, Kent, provides convenient access to Greater London, the South East, and the East of England, with extended coverage across the Midlands, the North of England, and Wales.

Nationwide Deployment Across England and Wales

Key regions served include: London and the South East (Kent, Surrey, Essex, Sussex); the East of England (Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire); the East Midlands (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire); the West Midlands (Staffordshire, Worcestershire, Warwickshire); Yorkshire and the Humber; the North West (Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire); the North East; Wales (South, North, and Mid Wales); and the South West (Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire).

To discuss your occupational health chest X-ray requirements, arrange a site visit, or request a proposal for a health surveillance imaging programme, contact Radpid Diagnostics on 01322 914330 or via our online enquiry form. Our team can advise on programme design, scheduling, IR(ME)R 2017 referral pathways, and reporting requirements for your sector.