WORKWELL is here to give you the support you need with this sometimes difficult subject. Our services are free to businesses in Sandwell to help to protect and promote the health and wellbeing of the working age population of the borough.

Occupational Health is concerned with the link between health and work, specifically:

1. The effect of work on health: Elements of a job that could put a worker’s health at risk
2. The effect of health on work: Elements of a worker’s health that could affect their ability to do their job or to give regular and reliable service

Many companies do not have access to Occupational Health Advice, yet they are responsible for the health of their employees at work. They are required to ensure that the workplace, its environment, practices, policies and procedures protect and promote employee health.

An employer is required to “make reasonable adjustment” to protect and ensure equality of employees with disability, but may struggle to know what the right adjustment is and whether it is reasonable.

Occupational Health Advice;

• Health and safety policies such as absence, stress, bullying and harassment, lone worker, drugs and alcohol and more:
  We can help you to write your health policies and make sure they are fair, workable and are up to date with legislation
• Rehabilitation and return to work:
  You know about the work, its content and risks and operational needs. We understand the health issues. Together we can plan a safe return to work for your employees
• Health issues in recruitment and retention:
  Making a decision about the recruitment or retention of an individual, based on their health status, could lead you unwittingly to discrimination. We are here to advise you
• Discrimination and other pitfalls:
  Your policies, practices and procedures must be fair, equal and inclusive, without discrimination on any grounds, including gender, faith, health, nationality, political views
• Obtaining medical reports and how to act upon them:
  You may receive a medical report but you don't know what you should do in response to protect the health of your employee. We are here to advise you
• Advice on statutory health surveillance such as noise or vibration:
  When you need to carry out health surveillance, how to find a suitable screening service and what to do about any results which cause concern
• Individual health cases:
  We can advise on aspects of individual health cases