Why invest?
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An Occupational Health service can provide advice and support to managers and employees to help them stay healthy and in work.
By investing in your most valuable asset you can:
- Retain staff and avoid recruitment and training costs
- Contribute to reducing sick pay and associated costs
- Support your staff if they are worried about how their health is going affect their ability to do their job
- Ensure all adequate precautions are taken to protect your employees from risks of the job and/ or equipment they use
- Help meet your legal requirements and avoid discriminating against disabled workers
Each week in the UK, one million people (almost 4% of the working population) take time off work due to illness and 3,000 people move from Statutory Sick Pay on to Incapacity Benefit.
As a healthy workforce has lower sickness absence, it is clear that employers can achieve significant cost savings if they can reduce their absence by improving health and well-being at work.