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Occupational Health Services

Occupational Health Services. Promoting Health and Wellbeing in the Work Place. Occupational Health Services. Securing Health together 2000 Health Work & Wellbeing Caring for our future. Oct 2005 The Healthy Workplaces Handbook 2007. Occupational Health Services. Occupational Health Aims

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Occupational Health Services

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  1. Occupational Health Services Promoting Health and Wellbeing in the Work Place.

  2. Occupational Health Services Securing Health together 2000 Health Work & Wellbeing Caring for our future. Oct 2005 The Healthy Workplaces Handbook 2007

  3. Occupational Health Services Occupational Health Aims • Reduce ill health both in workers and the public caused, or made worse by, work • Help people who have been made ill, whether caused by work or not, to return to work • Improve work opportunities for people currently not in employment due to ill health or disability • Use the work environment to help people maintain or improve health Securing Health Together (2000) A long-term occupational health strategy for England, Scotland and Wales

  4. Occupational Health Services Health Work & Wellbeing Caring for our future. (A strategy for the health and well-being of working age people DWP, HSE & DoH October 2005) “Forty million working days lost p.a. to occupational ill health & injury.” Estimated costs due to sickness absence £12 billion Estimated costs lost to public sector £4 billion “Work matters – it can help to improve your health, reduce inequalities and offer improved opportunities.”

  5. Occupational Health Services Benefits • Manage minor health problems in work • Return to work • Avoidance of work related health problems

  6. Occupational Health Services Key Themes • Engaging stakeholders • Improving working lives • Healthcare for working age people

  7. Occupational Health Services Engaging Stakeholders Networking with Managers • Divisionally allocated OH Nurses Networking with Users of the service • Regular visits to Trust areas RBH User Group • Divisional Managers • Staff group representation • Staff side representative • HR Managers & Director Customer satisfaction survey

  8. Occupational Health Services Improving Working Lives RBH achieved Practice Plus Accreditation • Flexible working guidelines • Self Rostering Project • Working from home • Nursery & Holiday Club • Subsidised restaurant • Travel to work policy – interest free loans (bicycles; season tickets • Subsidised Gym memberships • Above & beyond awards – Chairman’s awards • NHS Discounts

  9. Occupational Health Services Healthcare for working age people • Early return to work programmes • Self referral to Occupational Health • Counselling Service • PPC ( Employee Assistance Programme) • Physiotherapy Services • Seeking ethical approval - Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Programme

  10. Occupational Health Services • Health Work & Well Being • Promoting a healthy lifestyle • Obesity • Promoting healthy eating • Alcohol • Diabetes • Smoking • Promoting active transport • Promoting active recreation health in the workplace • Fitness testing The Healthy Workplaces Handbook The NHS reference guide to staff well-being NHS Employers (October 2007)

  11. Occupational Health Services In conclusion Changing Times • More focus on workplace health • More collaborative working with Human Resources • More collaborative working with Risk Management • Increased focus on Trust wide Health Promotion Programmes

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