Our Occupational Health Services

Pre-Employment Medical Screening

OHSB will asses whether individuals are medically fit for their proposed designated job role.  We will also advise on any reasonable adjustments that may be required for someone to manage in their new role.  Pre-employment medicals can be carried out on a paper-screening basis or we can carry out a full ‘job specific’ medical.  Pre-employment medical screening will:

Sickness/Absence Management

OHSB offer a sickness/absence management service, designed to help organisations manage their long-term and short-term absences.  With sickness/absence being a major issue for employers causing more than £13bn in ‘direct’ costs to industry in 2007*.

Our service will benefit employers by:

  1. reducing sickness/absence levels and associated costs
  2. improving worker morale
  3. protecting disabled workers
  4. retention of trained and valued staff

Health Surveillance

We offer a range of health surveillance programmes ‘tailor made’ to organisation needs.  Our clinical screening services include:

  1. lung function
  2. eyesight
  3. skin
  4. hand arm vibration
  5. hearing
  6. height, weight and body mass index
  7. musculo-skeletal assessments
  8. night worker health assessments
  9. pregnant worker assessments

Health Promotion

Looking after the health and well-being of your workforce is essential.  OHSB work alongside national health promotion events in order to support the health of your employees.

Initiatives include:

We can also provide health ‘roadshows’ which include cholesterol testing, glucose testing, blood pressure, pulse, body mass index, peak flow and skin hydration testing.

Policy Development

Should an organisation require support inwriting a health policy for their organisation, OHSB are able to assist in this area.  Examples of policies that our clients have benefited from include:

  1. occupational health
  2. sickness/absence
  3. drug and alcohol
  4. stress
  5. health surveillance

Training Services

OHSB offer a whole range of health and safety related training services.  We are both Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and Charted Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) approved.  Course offered include: