Work-Related Health
Employee health and productivity is paramount to the successful running of your business. Not only does it make good business sense, having a health monitoring strategy is also a legal obligation to businesses who have operations or substances which could affect the health of their workers.
Did you know that an estimated 600-900 Kiwi workers die from work-related illnesses each year? Consequently, Section 36 (3) (g) of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 requires PCBUs (businesses) to monitor their workers health to ensure they are not being harmed whilst at work. If you are unsure of what health monitoring your workplace may require our occupational health and safety experts can assist you to identify your specific needs through a health risk assessment.
Services can be provided on an as required basis or, to get the most value, services can be provided on a regular basis: weekly, fortnightly or monthly. Having a nurse at your premises on a regular basis, at a frequency you determine, can help spread the cost of occupational health services throughout the year. Furthermore, it offers a more convenient and flexible service for the provision of programmes such as health promotion activities, staff training, injury management, occupational health and exposure monitoring, co-ordination of medicals at your client’s sites, co-ordination of your occupational hygiene services, influenza/hepatitis vaccinations and the maintenance of first aid kits. Should you wish, our experienced occupational health practitioners can assist your health and safety team with other tasks such as, but not limited to, incident investigations, contractor pre-qualification and policy and procedure reviews.
All services are also available on your offshore facilities.
What we offer
Whether you are a one-man-band or an international corporation with multiple complex health risks, our services are tailored specifically to our client's varying needs. In this way you can be assured that your health monitoring strategy will only include those health assessments relevant to your business requirements. If it is not needed, we will not try and sell it to you!
Working for Health offers:
- a comprehensive and broad range of services
- a large team of highly qualified and capable occupational health professionals
- flexibility in appointment times
- your input in the development of your health monitoring program
- the latest and top of the line health assessment and surveillance equipment
- portable equipment so services can be conducted at your premises to minimise any disruption to your normal business activities
Please see some of our options below for work-related health monitoring. We have an exhaustive list of health service capabilities. If you can't find the service you are looking for, please see our contact page and give one of our friendly team a call to discuss your requirements.
Pre-employment Health Assessments
Assessing the health status of your prospective workers to ensure they are suitable for the proposed job.
Annual Health Monitoring
Yearly health checks specific to your business health risks to ensure worker health is not being harmed and that your controls are working.
Exit Health Monitoring
An exit medical will ensure your business has no liability for your employees health when they leave your organisation.
Biological Monitoring
We can test levels within the body of hazardous substances or what they are changed into after staff have been around them at work.
Drug and Alcohol
We provide drug and alcohol testing programmes including policy development, education, testing and advice.
Vaccinations
Immunising staff against vaccine-preventable illness to reduce sickness related absenteeism makes good business sense.
Workstation Assessments
Our trained health practitioners can undertake for you an ergonomic assessment of the work space and environment your worker is stationed at.
Wellness Programmes
Taking care of your workers' health and wellbeing has never been easier with Working for Health's range of wellbeing programmes and initiatives.
Health Risk Assessments
Using subject matter experts to systematically identify all your health risks along with what health and exposure monitoring is required.