OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

JRL Consultancy Solutions Ltd work with a partner who provide Occupational Health solutions across a wide range of organisations. They are a leader in the field in helping businesses to succeed. They support organisations to achieve high standards of Occupational Health. Their people are fully qualified Occupational Health Physicians and Occupational Health Nurses with the highest levels of knowledge, understanding and experience gained through working with organisations to meet statutory requirements and to raise Occupational Health standards.

The benefit of health surveillance is to detect adverse health effects at an early stage to enable furher harm to be prevented. Health surveillance can:-

• Provide a check on the effectiveness of control measures.
• Provide feedback on the suitability and sufficiency of risk assessments.
• Identify and protect persons at increased risk because of the nature of their work

The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 provides the statutory basis for health surveillance and is supported by other legislation which addresses health surveillance in several other specific areas. Health surveillance is appropriate where:-

• There is an idenifiable disease or adverse health condition related to the work concerned and
• Valid techniques are available to detect indications of the disease or condition and
• There is a reasonable likelihood that the disease or condition may occur under the particular conditions of work and
• Surveillance is likely to further the protection of the health and safety of employees

Health surveillance procedures include:-

• Inspection of readily detectable conditions by persons acting within the limts of their training and experience. 
• Enquiries about symptoms, inspection and examination by a qualified person.
• Medical surveillance including clinical examination and measurement of physiological or psychological effects by a qualified person.
• Biological effect monitoring viz. the measurement and assessment of early biological effects such as diminished lung function in exposed workers.
• Biological monitoring viz. the measurement and assessment of workplace agents or their metabolites either in tissues, secreta, excreta, expired air or any combination of these in exposed workers. 

Specifically with our partner JRL Solutions Ltd provides the following :-

• Assessment of health based on the clinical and occupational history and clinical signs, understanding of the occupation involved and performance of further clinical examination including further tests.
• Assessment of the interaction between workers and their jobs taking in to account Health and Safety issues.
• Organisation of investigations important to the assessment of occupational risks or fitness for work.
• Occupational intervention as required.
• Providing  information needed to protect against occupational risks.
• Information on other sources of assistance available.
• Advising attendance at a GP surgery where appropriate.
• Visits to the workplace where appropriate.
• Advice on measures required to ensure a safe working environment, taking into account statutory obligations.
• Health surveillance where appropriate.
• Assessment of fitness for work, rehabilitation or redeployment.
• Advice on ill-health retirement.
• Assistance to employers in accommodating workers with illness or disability and advising on statutory responsibilities.
• Discouragement of discrimination in the work place against employees with health problems.