What is Occupational Health?

Occupational health is about maintaining and promoting the physical and mental health of employees within their occupational environment.

An effective occupational health strategy can work to pro-actively promote good health as well as help craft and assist policies that are in place to deal with ill-health.

Occupational Health solutions can improve areas within the work environment which could be considered detrimental to workers' health and well-being. This in turn helps to reduce the cost of absence, injury and legal risk.

Our occupational health solutions can assist with:

• Physical work hazards:
  Car accidents, sun exposure, heat stress, noise and dehydration.
• Chemical work hazards:
  Tobacco smoke, indoor air pollution, work-related carcinogens, smoke, aerosols.
• Biological work hazards:
  Medical waste, tuberculosis, organic waste materials.
• Ergonomic work hazards:
  Lifting, pushing, repetitive motion.
• Psychosocial work hazards:
  Work stress, strain, workload, discrimination, power or gender politics.