Occupational Health

Workplace Rehabilitation	Wellcheck	Physiotherapy	Health Surveillance	Stress Management	Drug & Alcohol Tests
Complimentary Therapy	VDU Safety	Counselling	Annual Medical's	Pre-employment's	Sickness Absence

Sickness absence costs UK business about £13 billion per year. For some companies, costs from sickness absence have been known to be almost the same as the amounts gained by annual profits.

It is often possible to return such individuals to work earlier through active intervention, evaluation and assistance. Good sickness absence management makes employees feel valued and assists employee retention by advising on fitness for work, likely time-scales for return and temporary workplace adjustments to facilitate return to work. Also advises on structured, stepwise rehabilitation programs to facilitate employees safe return to the workplace. Factors of sickness absence in the workplace include:

sickness absence costs businesses money
failure to pro-actively record and manage sickness absence increases this cost;
employees who are off work invariably appreciate their employer keeping in touch and actively managing their return to work when appropriate;
both individual and group sickness absence problems can be tackled and managed with the assistance of appropriate advice from Occupational Health specialists;
failure to address 'trends' in sickness absence can lead to future liability issues;
GP's commonly sign people off sick for lengthy periods and provide ambiguous sick lines such as 'general debility'.

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