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Occupational
Health
Because Good Health, is Good Business
Why Occupational Health is so important
Occupational Health specialists can support businesses through advising on
work-related illnesses and accidents, carrying out assessments for new
starters and existing employees, monitoring the health of employees and
prevention.
It is estimated that the cost to the economy is estimated to be £100bn each
year due to employee sickness and absence.
Occupational Health services are used to assist
businesses in managing both short and longterm absence situations and give advice on
adjustments in the workplace to assist staff to
remain in work.
Research shows that the longer people are off
sick, the less likely they are to make a
successful return to work. After six months
absence from work, there is only a 50% chance
of someone making a successful return.
Occupational health specialists can assist by:
Advise on reasonable adjustments and what they might be;
Assess the functional capability of an employee against the job;
Advise what duties the employee would be able to 8cope with9;
Devise a rehab programme aimed at returning the employee to work.
The aim of occupational health is to prevent work-related illness and
injury by:
Encouraging safe working practices to meet H&S compliance
Studying how employees can work better;
Monitoring the health of the workforce;
Supporting the management of sickness absence;
Supporting health promotion and education programmes;
Providing advice/counselling to employees around non-health problems;
Because Good Health, is Good Business
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