What is Occupational Health and Wellbeing?

Occupational health is about the effect of work on health, and the effect of health on work. It plays a vital role in helping employers care for and understand the needs of their employees, enabling businesses to reduce sickness absence levels and optimise staff performance and productivity.

Occupational health is a vital component of HR policy, enabling employers to understand and comply with Health and Safety legislation and to ensure workplace risks are effectively managed. Other areas in which occupational health advice can assist organisations include rehabilitation and medical intervention programmes, disability adjustments, ill-health retirement issues and the management of existing work-related health problems.

Wellbeing services are designed to promote a holistic approach to the long-term health of employees. Solutions such as health promotion workshops, lifestyle assessments and stress management services create healthy and happy employees and consequently optimal performance levels.

2010 Autumn/Winter Update

A number of free resources have been added to this web site:

• The new fit note
• The role of occupational health
• Signs and symptoms of drug and alcohol abuse
• The new GMC guidance on confidentiality
• Managing Epilepsy at Work Case Study - from OH Magazine.
• Equality Act and Health Screening

We are pleased to announce that we now have Consulting Rooms in London