What Is Occupational Health?
Occupational health is concerned with keeping you and your staff happy and healthy. At Kays Medical, we can look after the mental and physical health of your employees through a variety of services that we tailor to your business. From flu immunisations to drug and alcohol testing, health surveillance, sickness absence management and even COVID-19, we can help with several areas of occupational health. By getting a bespoke OH services plan from Kays for your business, you can reduce absence, prevent health issues, and create a more positive working environment.
Kays Medical occupational health practice team aim:
- To identify and help mitigate workplace health risks. Our bespoke occupational health services can help with risk assessments, first aid training and compliance testing. We’ll also help your staff stay healthy when they’re not at their desk, with sickness absence management, vaccinations and immunisations for international travel if required.
- To ensure that employees are healthy enough to work effectively. This includes managing health and safety, particularly for roles where this is critical or mandatory. We provide working at heights, compliance base (with or without breathing apparatus), seafarer medicals, face-fit testing, ergonomic testing (including DSC workstation assessments) and HGV/LGV medicals.
- To help manage both workplace and non-workplace ill health or injury issues effectively. Our occupational health and safety services include providing practicable return to work advice for physical and psychological health conditions along with advice regarding appropriate workplace adjustments and safeguards at an individual level.
- To help your employees deal with workplace and non-workplace health issues. Our OH services include sickness absence management and health surveillance, with return to work advice for any conditions. We can work to make appropriate adjustments to help any employee adapt to changes their health may cause them, and we tailor our services to individuals.
- To train managers and employees to recognise the risks of workplace health. This includes training for physical and mental health, and first aid training in specialist, trauma, paediatric and sports first aid. Furthermore, Kays can provide physiotherapy and remote physiotherapy online for physical issues, while we also have talking therapy and counselling options for employees with mental health issues.
- To enhance the health and wellbeing of your whole team. We can do this through a range of occupational health support services, including B.A.P employee assistance programs, counselling and financial or legal advice. We can also provide drug and alcohol testing to make sure your employees take care of themselves outside of work, and COVID-19 services.
- In some settings to provide on-site health care, especially in high hazard or remote workplaces. This includes appropriate first aid assessment capability and competence, along with the provision of appropriate hardware and medicines.
- To screen employees according to their health risks. We can provide screening services that identify the risks of health issues before they develop, allowing us and them to adapt accordingly. Processes such as these reduce absences, improve productivity and enhance work ethic across your business. With a healthier, happier workforce, you have a healthier business, too.
We offer OH services to companies across the UK, including those in Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Glasgow, Southampton, Portsmouth, Leicester, Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Bristol, Brighton, Bromley, Croydon, Bournemouth, Reading, Swansea, Exeter and Plymouth.
