Table 1 Overview of the requirements and content of the job-specific workers' health surveillance programs for the two occupations.

   both occupations:

   both occupations:

Climbing stairs

Climbing stairs (2 × 6 times)

Climbing a ladder/scaffold

Climbing a ladder (7 m)

   bricklayers only:

   bricklayers only:

Standing

   Signalling questions hand-arm vibration syndrome [19]

Repetitive movements

   Bricklaying test (mixing a mortar-like substance, repetitive hand-arm movements with a trowel, picking up and laying bricks at several heights, lifting and carrying 25-kg sacks)

Working above shoulders

Working with a bent back

Squatting and kneeling

Lifting and carrying (25 kg)

   supervisors only:

   supervisors only:

Walking

Walking 10 min

Safety requirements

   Hearing

   both occupations:

   Audiogram [20]

   Eyesight

Signalling questions and eye test at 5 m [21]

   Working at heights

Signalling questions (weariness, alertness)

   Psychological vigilance

   both occupations:

Screening questionnaires:

Need for recovery after work [22, 23]

Distress [24]

Depression [25, 26]

Anxiety [25, 26]

Post-traumatic stress disorder [27]

Risky alcohol consumption [28]

   supervisors only:

Screening questionnaire burn-out [29]

Health requirements

Working with hazardous substances

   Skin

   both occupations:

Signalling questions skin

   bricklayers only:

Screening questionnaire hand dermatitis [30]

   Lungs and airways

   both occupations:

Signalling questions skin, lungs and airways [31]

Spirometry [31]

Cardiometabolic health

   both occupations:

Risk score cardiometabolic diseases [32]

Cardiovascular risk profile [33]

Work functioning

   both occupations:

First 5 questions of the work ability index [34–36]

   supervisors only:

Job-specific addition with mental requirements