Occupational Health works to control and manage the risks to ill health employees may face. It is an essential element of a proactive work place, recognising that the health and general wellbeing of all employees is a matter of importance both to the individual and to the employer.
The Occupational Health service at BMI Healthcare can support businesses in various ways:
Pre-employment assessment – to ensure that new employees are fit to carry out their proposed duties.
Sickness absence – assessment of employees and development of an effective action plan (return to work programmes, rehabilitation, redeployment or ill-health retirement where appropriate).
Advisory service – to advise management on the ways in which quality of working life can be improved.
Health surveillance – to make regular assessment of those employers whose job may involve particular risks to health.
Immunisation – to provide health advice and immunisation in the prevention of diseases.
Workplace assessments – where specific risks or work-related ill health may have been indentified.
Health promotion – to provide health education and advice for healthy living.
Work accidents or incidents – liaison with multidisciplinary teams to ensure employees are provided with adequate protection and surveillance.
