Occupational Health Southampton

Occupational Health

 

Occupational Health Southampton offers a service providing new-employment questionnaires and medicals, absence management, long-term sickness reviews, return to work medicals, industry specific medicals and a full range of specialist occupational health services.

We are degree qualified Occupational Health advisers covering Soutampton being situated on the edge of the New Forest.

It is likely that your employees are your most costly and therefore your most valuable asset. It is their health and welfare which keeps the wheels of any business running smoothly.

Occupational Health

 

A good occupational service helps to keep these wheels turning and can help:

  • Reduce absence
  • Maintain and increase output
  • Reduce the cost of recruitment and training
  • Show that you are a caring employee.
  • Helps to motivate the employees and spread goodwill
  • Meet the requirements of current employment legislation
  • Help increase your profit which means that it can be a ‘no-cost service’.

All our services are available on contract or on an a pay-as-you-go basis.

Occupational Health advisers look after your company and its employees. Even if you have just one case that is causing you concern, then we are here to help.

From our experience, we know how important the occupational health is for companies. According to the NHS research, 39% of companies providing occupational health noted decline in short-term absence and also noted a 28% reduction in long-term absence. We listen carefully to our clients to provide them tailored services including:

  • Wellbeing In The Workplace
  • Sickness Absence Management
  • Pre-employment Medicals
  • Annual Executive Medicals
  • Stress Management
  • Capability Assessments
  • Night Worker Assessments
  • Industrial Audiometry
  • Confined Space Medicals
  • Construction Worker Medicals
  • Working At Height Medicals
  • New And Expectant Mothers Assessments
  • Hearing Tests
  • Eyesight Tests
  • Spirometry
  • Lung Tests
  • Health Surveillance

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HSE

As an employer, you are required by law to prevent physical and mental ill health in your workers that may occur as a result of your business activities. Your risk assessment will help you decide what actions you need to take to do this.

An important part of occupational health is concerned with how work and the work environment can impact on workers’ health, both physical and mental. It also includes how workers’ health can affect their ability to do their job. Put simply this means the effect of work on health and that of health on work.

In health and safety law, there are things you must do to make sure workers’ health is not adversely affected by their work and that workers are medically fit to carry out their work safely. This includes:

  • implementing health or medical surveillance when necessary
  • ensuring workers are medically fit to undertake the role required (your industry may produce such standards)
  • reviewing your risk assessment when a worker is returning to work following sickness absence or declares a health condition

There are other things that you should do where workers have health conditions or disabilities, either work-related or not. This includes complying with equality legislation when supporting workers both in and returning to work.

There are things that you could do which are aimed at improving the general health and well-being of workers. However, these actions should not be prioritised over the things you must do, should be based on your workers’ needs and be evidence based.

 

NEWS

A Warrington-based construction company has been fined £90,000 after exposing people to asbestos during a renovation project in the Hanley area of Stoke-on-Trent.

Despite failing to attend Staffordshire Magistrates’ Court on 24 August 2023, Esskay Construction Ltd was found guilty in its absence.

Nathan Cook, prosecuting on behalf of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) told the court how the regulator received a concern on 31 August 2021 about asbestos disturbance. The concern related to a refurbishment project under the control of the company at an address in Brunswick Street in Hanley.

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Southampton (/sθˈ(h)æmptən/ (listen)) is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately 70 mi (110 km) south-west of London and 15 mi (24 km) west of Portsmouth.[6][7] The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Portsmouth and the towns of Havant, Waterlooville, Eastleigh, Fareham and Gosport.

A major port,[8] and close to the New Forest, it lies at the northernmost point of Southampton Water, at the confluence of the River Test and Itchen,[9] with the River Hamble joining to the south. Southampton is classified as a Medium-Port City.