Occupational Health Needs Assessment

What is an Occupational Health Needs Assessment?

An Occupational Health Needs Assessment is the process of gathering information on employees within a company to provide information on their health and well-being needs. This would include reviewing the different job roles, number of employees and sites and providing the type of testing required to ensure their health and safety within their roles.

Occupational health cycle

The occupational health cycle encompasses all the components of an employee’s life cycle within the workplace. We are specialised in assisting with all steps of this life cycle and can help you determine what your employees’ needs are with an occupational health needs assessment.

Why is an occupational health needs assessment important?

It helps provide employers with an understanding of the risks and exposures their employees face within their specific job roles. Once we have that understanding, then employees can be broken down into groups based on who requires what surveillance and/ or medical.

Innovate Healthcare can provide guidance and support throughout these processes when required.

The HSE describe Health Surveillance as a system of ongoing health checks.

There is often a legal requirement to conduct Health Surveillance for employees who are exposed to certain hazards such as noise, vibration, and substances hazardous to health.

What are the benefits to conducting an occupational health needs assessment?

The benefits of conducting an OHNA include identifying and managing health risks, improving the health and wellbeing of employees, reducing sickness absence, increasing productivity, and complying with legal and regulatory requirements.

Health Surveillance Risk Assessment
- Employer: Identify risks and exposures within each role
- Results from HS to determine if all risks are identified
Type of Health Surveillance Needed
- Health surveillance is completed on hazards that team members are exposed to within their job roles.
- We can help identify this if required
Setting up Health Surveillance
- Determine if there are any individual requirements in addition to the main job roles and exposure.
- For example; unusual exposure conditions, reports of ill health, failure of safety equipment, changes to equipment etc
- Liaise with our team
Carry out Health surveillance
- Determine who will carry out health surveillance, the number of days and the location of health surveillance. This includes whether you would like us to use a room on your premises or a mobile clinic.
Feedback following testing
- Fitness certificates and a summary report are provided for testing
- Escalation of any concerns completed
Follow-up on Actions Advised
- Employer to follow up on any actions advised, including changes to health surveillance, earlier HS reviews and any patterns identified

Why Choose US?

1. A Decade of Dedicated Occupational Health and Wellbeing

Since our journey began in 2011, our mission has been to help people overcome the barriers to health and work by delivering high quality health and work services, including health surveillance, which are accessible to all. We are purposely different and bring a modern, fresh approach to workplace health and wellbeing by adapting to the ever-changing health and wellbeing needs of the modern workforce and constantly focussing on the quality of the services we deliver, such as our health surveillance services include occupational health surveillance, ensuring your workforce remains healthy and productive.

2. Comprehensive services cover all aspects of employee care

We provide support at every step of an employee’s journey including Management Referrals and Health Surveillance through to full Immunisations programmes, physiotherapy and talking therapies. We deliver high quality, tailored solutions that are designed to meet the specific needs of your workforce and delivering services through our dedicated in-house team means we guarantee high quality outcomes, consistently. Our health surveillance services including occupational health surveillance help to safeguard the health of your workforce and ensure optimal workplace performance.

3. A Nationwide Team of Expert Clinicians

Our head office is in Stockport, and our dedicated in-house team of clinicians operate throughout the UK and Ireland. We deliver services virtually, where clinically possible to do so which means we can support colleagues quickly, regardless of their physical location in addition to being able to deliver in person services as and when required, we also offer comprehensive Health Surveillance Services. Our clinical team purposely includes a diverse range of healthcare professionals, including Occupational Health Nurses, Occupational Health Physicians, Physiotherapists, Psychologists, and Occupational Therapists as this allows us to provide the full range of services that clients require, including occupational health surveillance Services.

4. A Medium-Sized Enterprise Tailored to diverse Needs

Innovate offers the ideal balance of scale and flexibility. We are large enough to handle the diverse needs of both small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as larger corporate customers. Additionally, our commitment to delivering tailored solutions ensures that you will receive a solution that meets your specific requirements whilst our agile approach allows us to adapt quickly to changing circumstances, providing you with the flexibility and responsiveness you expect from a smaller organisation.We also specialize in Health Surveillance and other workplace health and safety services, ensuring that your employees are healthy and productive. Our health surveillance services, including occupational health surveillance, are designed to help you maintain a safe and healthy workplace.

What the other clients said

SEQOHS AssessorSEQOHS Assessor is a highly qualified professional tasked with evaluating occupational health services against the stringent standards

"I am so grateful for all your support I am still on my journey to recovery but have strong foundations in place and a greater level of understanding about it all which will stay with me for life"

Customer Employee

It was an excellent session, I thought. The spirit and engagement of staff was very much on point and I thought the personal disclosures and inputs really did enrich the conversations. Your delivery was excellent both – technically and style wise – thank you” – following a wellbeing event

Customer

Following a wellbeing event

"The admin communication is fab, and the OH Reports are the best I've ever seen"

“I found the appointment really useful and it was handled very sensitively which made speaking about my health issues a lot easier”

Employee

“Working with Innovate has been an overwhelmingly positive experience to date. Everything from the easy-to-use online portal, proactive customer service team, comprehensive reports and fast turnaround times have reformed our approach to occupational health referrals, streamlining the process for us and enabling more informed conversations between employer & employee.”