What actually is
Occupational Health?
Occupational Health (OH) is about how work affects a person’s health.
How can we help?
Government Guidelines
Forward-thinking organisations recognise that managing their people is just as important as controlling financial and capital resources. Developing a healthy workplace culture and adopting a systematic approach to OH will contribute to an organisation’s success. For example, evidence suggests that there is a link between stock market price growth and having a great employee wellbeing programme.
The conclusion?
The evidence review of Waddell and Burton has confirmed that being in work is generally better for health and wellbeing than being out of work. Those in healthy and safe work (the majority) will live much longer than those out of work. If individuals move from work to worklessness, their risk of mortality rises and if they move back into work, it falls. Thus, individuals’ job (or jobless) level determines their life expectancy. Of course, this is the role of OH services to support employees in remaining at work or returning to work earlier – and thus contributing to the employees’ physical and psychological well being.
