What is Occupational Health?

Safeguard your employees and your workflow with occupational health safety.

Occupational Health is about protecting, maintaining and promoting the physical and mental health of your employees within their work environment. An effective Occupational Health Strategy proactively supports your employees and your business productivity through the promotion of staff well-being. By highlighting potential health issues, advance measures can be taken to manage and minimise them.

Occupational Health services also help companies find and improve risk areas within the work environment which could be considered detrimental to their workers' health. This in turn helps you the employer to reduce the cost of absence, injury and legal risk to your business.

Occupational Health hazard categories

The potential hazards in the workplace which could endanger your employees and expose your company to legal claims fall under the following categories:

• Psychosocial: organisational issues, personal work stress factors, issues relating to work politics (eg power, interpersonal relationships, discrimination).
• Physical: noise, vibration, radiation, extremes of temperature, risk of accidental injury or death (eg car accidents).
• Chemical: dust, fumes, vapours, gases, other chemicals, indoor air pollution (including tobacco smoke), work-related carcinogens.
• Biological: medical (clinical) waste, other organic waste materials, infectious diseases (eg leptospirosis, hepatitis, laboratory pathogens).
• Ergonomic: manual handling, repetitive motion, general job/work design.

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