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OCCUPATIONAL
HEALTH IMPORTANCE
Because Good Health, is Good Business
Why Occupational Health is so important
Occupational Health specialists can support businesses through advising on workrelated 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
long-term 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 per cent
chance of someone making a successful return.
Occupational health specialists can assist by:
Advising on reasonable adjustments and what they might be;
Confirming whether an individual9s condition satisfies the legal criteria of a disability,
And therefore, deciding upon whether the Equality Act [2010] applies;
Assessing the functional capability of an employee against the demands of the job;
Advising what duties the employee would be able to 8cope with9;
Devising a rehab programme specifically 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 health and safety 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 and counselling to employees around non-health-related problems;
Because Good Health, is Good Business