Are you looking to streamline your hiring process and ensure that you’re bringing the right candidates on board? Ensure that only the most qualified and healthy candidates are joining your workforce by implementing pre employment medical screenings. These tests are a game-changer when it comes to hiring the best talent for your business, as they...
Category: Occupational Health Services
What is a Chester Step Test and why is it important?
Welcome to the world of cardiovascular fitness assessments – whether you are looking to assess your fitness level for work, or looking to improve your fitness in order to pursue your dream career, then a Chester Step Test is essential. An excellent tool for assessing your aerobic capacity, this simple yet effective fitness test measures...
Navigating the new normal: how to manage employee absences in a post-pandemic world
It was reported earlier this year that GPs may be told to issue fewer sick notes in a bid to keep more people in work and boost the economy. Since the onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, sickness absence in the workplace has increased considerably. This increase in sick days has continued even...
How occupational health services can help your office based business
You might think working in an office poses a low risk to health, but when you weigh up the risks caused by bad posture and working positions, slippery floors, misplaced cables and a sedentary lifestyle, the health and safety of these employees is just as important as those working in more physical industries. Occupational health...
How we can help you manage sickness absence and enable staff to return to work
The average employee takes around 5 – 6 days sick leave every year. Whilst some sickness absence cannot be avoided, we all know that there are many people who take no sick leave at all, meaning that the average is balanced out by lengthier absences. It is these long term absences that can cause staffing...
Why It Pays to Invest In Occupational Health Services in Small Business
HEATHROW MEDICAL – Occupational Health Services are now gaining business skills such as cost-benefit analysis (CBA), which can be used to sell OH services or gain funding for changes or expansion. The main goal of most companies is to increase profits, then it would be logical to say the best way to encourage companies to utilize...