Health Surveillance: Under and Over Health Surveillance
Health surveillance (HS) involves regular medical checks being undertaken on employees, by occupational health clinicians, on behalf of...
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Insight Workplace Health
- Jul 20, 2023
- 3 min
Workstation, Ergonomic and Vehicle Assessments
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) and work-related upper limb disorders (WRULD) are a major cause of long-term sickness absence in the UK,...
Insight Workplace Health
- Jul 11, 2023
- 2 min
What is an occupational health assessment?
At Insight Workplace Health our occupational health clinicians undertake a wide variety of occupational health assessments to ensure that...
Insight Workplace Health
- Jul 7, 2023
- 2 min
A guide to ill-health retirement (IHR)
If you are unable to work due to ill health, your employer will need to seek advice from an independent occupational health physician...
Insight Workplace Health
- Jul 3, 2023
- 3 min
Wellness Action Plans (WAP)
Wellness Action Plans (WAP) are individual, evidence-based, pro-active tools for supporting individuals with their mental health and...
Insight Workplace Health
- Jul 3, 2023
- 2 min
Driver Medicals
Ensuring that employees are fit to undertake all driving duties in their role is essential for the health and wellbeing of employees,...
Insight Workplace Health
- Apr 26, 2023
- 3 min
FAQs About GP or Consultant Reports for Occupational Health and/or Ill Health
Why do Occupational Health (OH) want to contact my GP or Consultant? Occupational health clinicians (nurses or physicians) may feel it is...
Insight Workplace Health
- Apr 25, 2023
- 2 min
Case Conferences in Occupational Health
What is a case conference? A case conference is a face to face, or virtual, meeting between the employee (and trusted friend or union...
Insight Workplace Health
- Apr 25, 2023
- 3 min
Biological Monitoring in Occupational Health
What is biological monitoring? Biological monitoring is a method of chemical exposure assessment of toxic compounds, elements, or their...
Insight Workplace Health
- Apr 25, 2023
- 5 min
Audiometry FAQs
The Control of Noise at Work Regulations (2005) require employers to reduce the risk of exposure to noise in the workplace for all...
Insight Workplace Health
- Apr 12, 2023
- 3 min
A Guide to Occupational Skin Disease and Skin Assessment
Occupational skin disease may be caused by exposure to a physical, chemical, or biological substances or repetitive mechanical force and...
Insight Workplace Health
- Apr 12, 2023
- 2 min
A Guide to Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSD)
Musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) are one of the leading causes of absence from work and employers have a legal duty to avoid potentially...
Insight Workplace Health
- Apr 11, 2023
- 3 min
Respiratory Assessment and Spirometry FAQ's
Depending upon the industry occupation in which you work, the workplace risk assessment and method statement (RAMS) regarding respiratory...
Insight Workplace Health
- Mar 9, 2023
- 2 min
What is neurodiversity and how can it impact the workplace?
Neurodiversity is a concept that recognizes and celebrates the natural variations in human brain function and behaviour. It suggests that...
Insight Workplace Health
- Feb 20, 2023
- 2 min
What is a Workplace Needs Assessment?
A Workplace Needs Assessment or Neurodiversity Assessment is a more specialist occupational health service, used to identify any...
Tim Bushell
- Jan 19, 2023
- 2 min
What is Occupational Health?
Everyone has heard of occupational health, but very few actually understand it, in our latest blog Insight Workplace Health delves deeper...
Tim Bushell
- Dec 12, 2022
- 2 min
When should I refer an employee to occupational health?
In our latest blog post, we reveal everything you need to know about occupational health management referrals Management Referrals At...
Tim Bushell
- Nov 18, 2022
- 2 min
Safety Critical Medical FAQ's
Under the 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act, employers have a duty of care to prevent the ill-health of their workers; In our latest...
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