Everything you need to make your business more healthy
Having a healthy workforce is healthy for business. Days lost through absenteeism cost British industry over £10 billion every year. Statistics indicate that at least a staggering 40 million days are lost each year to workplace absence and, according to CBI, on average employee absence costs their employer over £800 per year. Recent surveys (NU Healthcare/ CBI/ PPP Healthcare 2001) found that on average 7-8 days are lost per employee per year, equivalent to 3.4% of the total working time.
The main causes of absence for all employees have been identified as:
- Stress related ill health
- Back pain
- Musculo-skeletal injuries: strains and sprains
- Minor illness i.e. colds/ flu/ headaches etc
- Family/ home social issues
- Reccurring (chronic) medical conditions
For many businesses a large proportion of days lost could be reduced by active management, particularly multiple short term absence. Furthermore when illness occurs it is equally important to get staff back to work in good health and as quickly as possible.
This is a significant driver for organisations of all sizes, and in all sectors, to engage occupational health for specialist advice in an effort to reduce lost work days, promote a sense of well-being at work, save money and improve efficiency.
How Occupational Health can pay for itself
From the outset we can reduce your potential exposure to the costs of absenteeism, and address your legislative requirements, using qualified practitioners to deliver a range of professional OH services:
- Comprehensive support & advice to clients (Management / HR Team)
- Telephone support and advice for line managers
- Full access to a dedicated website
- Assistance in the construct and development of strategy / policies and processes
- Occupational Health audits / Annual reviews and reports
- Retention and storage of medical records
- New Starter health assessments
- Night workers health assesments
- Sickness absence / Ill health referrals (long term / frequent short term ect)
- Ill health retirement
- Management of accidents at work / work related health issues
- Work station assessments & ergonomic advice
- Health Surveillance services
- Statutory medicals
- Preventative vaccinations
- Employee / Executive health screening / Well person medicals
- Travel Health
- Health promotion activites
- Drug and Alcohol advice / support & screening
- Occupational hygiene services
- First Aid Training and updating
- Rehabilitation support and services
- EAP lines / Dedicated support lines / Critical incident support
- Telephone absence management
Our long-term Occupational Health objective?
To reduce your costs by over 16% per year!
Whilst some of our services deliver an immediate benefit, the nature of occupational health is to develop a culture of wellbeing throughout the organisation and therefore steadily reduce absence.
Our long term ambition is to reduce absenteeism by 1% every month, month on month, for the first year. This may not sound a lot but it means that at the end of 12 months the business will enter its second year of the programme with an absentee ‘run-rate’ 16% lower than when it started the programme. We firmly believe that working closely with you our best practice occupational health policy genuinely can deliver savings.
The following figures may be of interest:
- A 10% annual run-rate reduction needs a saving of only .68% per month
- A 12 % annual run-rate reduction needs a saving of only .89% per month
- A 1% per month saving equals an annual run-rate reduction of 16.8%
Occupational Health can cost a lot less than you think – see our ‘Services’ section and judge for yourself
