What can Chantry Health Services do for your business?

Understanding the relationship between health and the workplace is fundamental to the success of your business. Chantry Health Services can help you with this by tackling any health-related problems that might arise.

What’s more, with our comprehensive range of occupational health services tailored to your needs, Chantry can work with business tackle the fundamental health issues to help reduce sickness absence and create a healthier, more productive working environment.

• Provide services for all your needs, from an ‘as needed’ consultancy service when problems arise with a particular sickness absence issue, a particular employee with a health issue or needing to discuss matters such as reasonable adjustments to comply with the Equality Act 2010, to a full on site Occupational Health Service.

• Working with management to establish and/or facilitate policies eg stress management

Stress, anxiety and other mental health problems are the second reason for sickness absence in the UK.

• Provide regular on site visits to see referred employees and/or provide advice.

• Work with management and human resources to either establish and/or maintain sickness absence policy and Equality policies.

• Tailored return to work plans for those returning to work after sickness or change in health.

• Advise regarding individuals who may be covered by Equality Act legislation.

• Obtain Specialist medical reports (eg Occupational Health Physician or Consultant) and advise management accordingly on any workplace or role implications.

• Fitness for work

• Night worker/shift worker assessments in accordance with current legislation including Working Time Regulations 1998

• Facilitate Health Surveillance under COSHH legislative requirements.

• Facilitate Noise Conservation

• Professional Driver assessments including eg frequent driver, Fork Lift Truck Operator medical assessments

• Workstation assessments

Musculo-skeletal injuries are in the highest category of why workers are off work – HSE statistics show that typists and/or those with high VDU usage are those most likely to have an upper limb problem causing time off work.
Prevention of repetitive strain injuries
Prevention of musculo-skeletal problems by poor posture at workstation
                                 VDU and light positioning to prevent eye strain

• Workplace assessments

                             To identify risk factors associated with the operational processes


• Executive, Director & key Personnel medicals to ensure health and well being of key business personnel

• Risk assessments

To identify risk factors which may lead to further health problems and work with Health and Safety staff to reduce risk factors

• Training and Health Promotion

Ensuring that everyone has key knowledge and skills encourages everyone to take responsibility for their own health and prevent absence

We offer a wide range of health education programmes, to help you comply with legislation, and to help people make decisions about important lifestyle issues. Subjects include:

smoking cessation

skin hygiene

well woman/man topics

healthy eating/weight watching

healthy heart/cholesterol issues

etc

• Advising and sourcing on appropriate additional employee services to facilitate return to work and preventing future further on costs (eg physiotherapy, chiropractic, counselling etc)

In addition to Occupational Health experience, Chantry Health Services are experienced in business management and understand the changing world of business and work. Chantry Health Services are best placed to work with you to facilitate a happy, healthy and efficient workforce.

Data Protection & Confidentiality

Although medical information is kept confidential and records maintained under Data Protection legislation, Access to Medical Reports legislation and Human Rights Legislation, Chantry Health Services can provide you with clear advice on how health and risks can be managed within a role within an organisation. It may be that for a particular individual, temporary or permanent adjustments need to be considered. By giving clear advice and guidelines on what can be expected, Chantry Health Services can give managers the tools to manage. Individuals can be assured that their personal health data is not disclosed without the proper consents.