Health Surveillance | Occupational Health Surveillance HSE

Health Surveillance in the UK

For comprehensive occupational health surveillance services wherever your business is based in the UK, look no further than Healthier Workforce. We help employers meet their occupational health obligations and duty of care to their staff with our health surveillance programmes specifically tailored for their business.

Our full service approach means we are on hand from start to finish, offering guidance, support and resources so business owners can make informed decisions. We have been helping valued clients for over a decade, and to ensure we provide the highest standards of service, our trusted partners are fully registered and accredited.

Workplace health surveillance involves monitoring employees in high risk jobs through a series of ongoing checks to identify any health issues caused by their role. Health surveillance should not be confused with other aspects of occupational health, such as health and lifestyle checks – that’s why it’s important to enlist the help of an OH expert so that the most appropriate process is followed for the most beneficial outcome.

Our Process

Here at Healthier Workforce, our thorough process includes identifying any elements that require monitoring, and evaluating your current policies and procedures.

We can help you create the best process for safeguarding your employees by tailoring your health surveillance programme according to what our experts advise. This can include recommending extra training for employees, giving them the opportunity to raise their own concerns, and exposing problems with workplace control measures.

We believe that there is no one-size-fits-all solution, which is why we provide impartial advice given the individual requirements of the business. Based on our findings we then share with employers a list of suggested control measures we feel should be put in place to help prevent any issues from getting worse – it is then up to the business itself to decide what to implement at their workplace to maintain a safe, productive and positive environment.

Even once the control measures have been put into place, it’s still important to have health surveillance carried out on an ongoing basis to ensure they are still achieving their purpose of keeping employees safe in their role. As such, health surveillance is typically carried out annually so employers can fulfil their duty of care and legal responsibility. It’s worth noting that this might need to be sooner in certain circumstances such as a job role change or the hiring of a new employee to the position.

As part of this ongoing programme, we maintain a thorough track on all previous health surveillance records so that we know exactly which employees require surveillance and what will be needed as part of these checks. By keeping everything documented, we are able to refer back to previously recommended control measures and whether they are still fulfilling their purpose, as well as assessing anything new that has occurred within the past year.

Simply contact us today for general information, to learn more about our occupational health services or speak to an OH professional.