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Occupational Health is the specialist health care service that is dedicated to identifying and preventing ill health in the workplace.

We can help provide simple and cost effective ways to reduce absence, ill-health, stress and other occupational health issues that may affect the success of your business.

We offer a broad range of services tailored specifically to the needs of your business.
Our expert team of Occupational Health Advisors can deliver specialist professional advice and the support you need, to help maintain the health and well being of all your employees.

We strive to fully understand the health needs of your company to provide a proactive, dynamic service with a strong emphasis on prevention to benefit everyone in the organisation. 

Preventative Strategies

A wide range of risk assessments to prevent and remove health risks and meet legislative demands. Includes assessment, workplace design and ergonomics.

• DSE assessments (ensures your business complies with Display Screen Equipment regulations)

• Pregnancy risk assessment 

• Workplace risk assessment

• Assessment of workplace for employees with health problems

• Ergonomic assessments

Health Surveillance and Screening

Pre-employment assessments ensuring prospective employees are fit to perform their role. Health surveillance and screening programmes will help you meet your legislative responsibilities and protect and detect against health concerns for your employees.

• Pre employment fitness for work (paper screening or with consulation with Occupation Health Advisor or Company Medical Advisor)

• Night worker screening

• Lung function testing as required under COSHH for exposure to respiratory sensitisers

• Noise conservation including audiometric screening as required under the control of noise at work regulations

• Vision screening

• Skin surveillance as required under COSHH to detect skin problems

• Hand arm vibration assessments for compliance with contol of vibration at work regulations

• Fork lift truck and driver medicals to comply with good practice under medical standards of fitness to drive

• Other specific and relevant medicals arranged as required including: Chemical, international assignment, security, thermal chamber, confined spaces, working at height

Case Management

Providing professional advice for staff unable to work due to short term and long term absence. Proactively manage sickness absence and attendance cases, including rehabilitation advice and workplace adjustments, if required, helping staff return to work.

• Absence and attendance case management (including short term, long term, ill-health retirement)

• Health assessments (carried out where there is concern about the employees health, performance or attendance at work) 

Wellbeing, Lifestyle and Travel

Providing advice and councelling and work based health promotion activities.

Travel advice and a vaccination service is available to your employees travelling outside of the UK. The annual flu clinic could significantly protect the health of your staff.

• Reiki Healing

• Emotional Freedom Technique

• Reflexology

• Indian Head Massage

• Health and promotion advice/activities

• Advice and counselling on health matters

• Stress management advice

• Smoking cessation course

• Travel health vaccination programme

• Flu vaccination clinic

Bespoke Services

An enhanced first aid service is available to support your first aiders in the workplace including a nurse call out service. The first aid treatment room is available to your employees, who require treatment, and your first aiders. There is a self referral system for all your staff to access a range of additional OH services such as GP monitored workplace blood pressure checks and wound dressings.

• Enhanced first aid nurse call-out on-site

• Fully equipped first aid treatment room

• Self referral system available to all employees

• Management referrals

• First aid course (all first aid courses are run on-site and organised throughout the year)

• First aid refresher course

• First aid 1/2 day update course

• On-site blood pressure monitoring

• Wound treatment service

• National blood service (on-site)