Occupational Health is a distinct branch of healthcare which deals with the complex interactions between work and health. The tasks performed by OH professionals are multiple and extremely varied but are all concerned with ensuring that peoples' work does not harm their health, and that their health has the minimum impact on their work. [ Back to top ]


Why use Occupational Health?

The cost of sickness absence in the UK is huge and often hidden. Employee absence costs include sick pay, overtime for other employees, the cost of recruiting and employing a replacement worker, the burden placed on other workers leading to a higher likelihood of additional sickness absence as well as human resources time spent dealing with absent employees. Often these costs come from different budgets and are difficult to quantify meaning that businesses do not identify the problem and continue to lose money unnecessarily due to staff absence.

For GP's and hospital specialists, who have little or no knowledge of a patients' employment duties and usually no expertise in occupational health, providing advice about work is difficult and can cause feelings of uncertainty and frustration in both doctor and patient. As a result, it is often avoided or weighted towards a patient's preferences which may not always be in their or their employer's best interests. In fact, two-thirds of certified sickness absence is due to common health problems which generally have no occupational cause and should allow people to remain at work, or return quickly.

By using a motivated and flexible provider of OH, employers can see the costs of sickness absence decline rapidly through correct work placement and control of absence in employees. Some of the other many benefits include compliance with legislation which reduces the risk of expensive litigation, having a healthier workforce, improved productivity, an improvement in corporate image, better industrial relations and reduced staff turnover. [ Back to top ]

What Can Integrated Occupational Healthcare Do For Your Business?

We can provide your business with high quality, flexible occupational health tailored to your specific needs and delivered by specially-trained and qualified healthcare professionals. This might include pre-employment screening to ensure that you employ the right people in the right jobs. We can guide you through relevant employment, disability and health and safety legislation to ensure that you meet your obligations as efficiently as possible and are not exposed to legal action. We could ensure that your sickness absence levels are minimised and that employees absent with sickness are returned to work as quickly as possible in their and your best interests. All of these examples will in turn reduce your costs and have been proven time and again to increase the bottom line. [ Back to top ]

How Will We Adapt to Your Needs?

It is vital that our occupational health advice is relevant and tailored to your specific working environment. Our aim is to mould and integrate our services around your own existing unique business culture and to provide you with the best fit service possible. To achieve this, prior to providing services to clients we like to meet with key personnel and assess the workplace environment in order to give us the best possible understanding of your business and to allow us to best advise you on work-related health issues. [ Back to top ]

Occupational Health and Small Business

Occupational health has traditionally been the premise of government and large employers, but it is a fact of life that small businesses are often the ones that need this input the most. The ramifications of sickness absence and non-compliance with health and safety legislation can be immense for this type of enterprise.

While we do supply services nationwide to large international companies, we also have the facility to work in a unique way with small businesses, providing any services required on an ad hoc pay as you go basis without an expensive and inflexible contract. In this way, we can be on call for you to provide affordable, flexible and targeted occupational healthcare when you most need it. [ Back to top ]

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