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Occupational health
Workplace Law provide a management referral service through our associate Occupational Health Service provider. This enables our clients to gain an understanding on several areas including, but not limited to:
- long-term sickness absence;
- recurrent short-term sickness absence;
- concerns regarding work performance and fitness for those duties;
- assessment following an accident within the workplace; and
- alcohol and drug related problems.
As part of the service provision, our service provider also sources and facilitates specialist assessment and support including:
- cognitive behavioural therapy;
- physiotherapy;
- independent medical opinion in a specialist field; and
- counselling.
Assessments can be undertaken via the phone, through correspondence with the employee’s GP / specialist, or as a physical examination. The nature of the assessment will be appropriate to your business needs.
Once medical consent has been received, Workplace Law will work with you and our OH service provider to understand the potential medical factors involved within each individual case and also derive the most appropriate, pragmatic and risk-free solutions.
Our consultants will support your business to implement the chosen option, including supporting letters and other documentation.
Our OH provider can undertake medical assessments anywhere in the UK, thereby providing national coverage for an increasingly important facility.
You have peace of mind in that the correct legal procedures have been utilised to acquire employee consent and also all solutions generated by Workplace Law consultants are within the parameters of the law.
Benefits
- OH assessments can help you manage sickness in your workplace to the benefit of both employees and the organisation, improving staff health and morale, removing stress, whilst managing the needs of the business.
- Our Occupational Health service will give you peace of mind in knowing that you are following the correct legal procedures in managing sickness absence.
Case studies
In 2012 Workplace Law was asked to develop and deliver a property management-focused sustainability training course for BNP Paribas Real Estate UK. This is a branch of BNP Paribas bank, which provides a number of property services including development, management and investment of property portfolios across the UK.
Workplace Law was appointed in the final quarter of 2012 to assist Shelter with the implementation of an ISO 14001 Environmental Management System (EMS). Shelter wished to reduce its environmental impact, secure funding and make operational cost savings.
"In 2009 Chaps Ltd recognised that it needed to improve its health and safety systems. We changed our Health and Safety consultants to Workplace Law in order to give us a fresh approach towards our management of health and safety and to gain specialist construction advice.
"By using their expertise and experience Simon and Maria have guided us into developing a health and safety system that has achieved CHAS accreditation and given our customers and principle contractor’s confidence in our management of health and safety. They have always been available to offer advice when needed and to provide independent site inspections and audits which are often required by our customers.
"Both Simon and Maria continue to support Chaps Ltd and have become an important, integral part of our Health and Safety Management System."
Suzanne Jackson, HR Director, Emprise:
“Workplace Law has made a difference to the quality of the service we can provide to our staff. And because of the customised service from Workplace Law, the costs have come down.
“We’re now into the second year and we’re pleased with the level of service which is always turned around quickly with any queries being answered straight away.”
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