What is Occupational Health?
Occupational health is a unique branch of medicine concerned with how a workers health can affect his or her ability to undertake their job and how the work and the work environment can in turn affect an employee's health
In 2010 180 million sickness days were taken in the UK, costing industry £16.8 billion.
This equates to every employee having 6.4 days off sick. 15% of all sickness days taken were thought not to be genuine.
Using an effective occupational health service such as Inspire can benefit your company by
• reducing the cost of staff absence/sickness
• to support management and HR by providing a professional and consistent approach to managing sickness absence
• improve employees health thus reducing staff turnover by improving retention
• ensure compliance with disability and health and safety legislation therefore reducing the risk of costly litigation and poor publicity
• reduces the likelihood of employee compensation claims for work-related illness or injury.
• In some cases can reduce employers liability insurance premiums
