Occupational health

The benefits of an occupational health service

Care first's specialist partner offers a high quality, professional occupational health service. This service can benefit your business in many ways:

• Reduce the cost of staff absence and sickness
• Give staff a professional approach to managing sickness and absence
• Help managers handle employee sickness issues
• Reduce staff turnover by improving retention
• Comply with Health & Safety legislation and the Disability Discrimination Act
• Boost staff morale through effective management of unnecessary absence
• Help alleviate stress at work
• Achieve significant return on investment

A return on investment from tackling the cost of sickness absence

Sickness absence is a significant cost to all businesses.  Not only are there the direct costs of salary and sick pay, but there are also considerable costs in relation to management time, disruption and lost productivity. Some studies estimate that these indirect costs can be twice as high as the direct costs. 

We would expect that over 30% of the absence caused within the company would be attributable to medium and long-term absence, ie. greater than four weeks. 

In terms of returns on investment (ROI), we need to save you only a few days of absence per case to justify the cost of medical advice. Typically, we would expect to save many weeks. The returns from using an effective OH provider, will be in excess of 200% with an almost immediate payback period. Our estimates suggest that returns should be at least in excess of 10 times the cost of the OH service.  Further information on the cost/ benefit and ROI from using an OH provider is available on request.

The range of services offered

Our occupational health, absence management and consultancy service is made up of a number of modules. More information is available upon request.

• Chief Medical Officer advice line
• Management referrals and case management
• Pre-employment health screening
• Absence Monitoring and Absence management
• Executive screens and medicals
• Health promotion and wellness programmes
• Health surveillance to meet legal compliance
• Alcohol and drugs testing, including 'with cause' screening
• OH Consultancy including ITT development and audit
• Stress and risk audits
• Management support and consultancy