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.
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Occupational Health Needs Assessment
What is an Occupational Health Needs Assessment?
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
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