What is Occupational Health?

Occupational Health (OH) is concerned with how work and the work environment can affect an employee’s health, and how employee health can affect a person’s ability to do the job.

Assessing Fitness For Work

The primary purpose of health assessment fitness for work is to make sure that an individual is fit to perform the tasks involved effectively and without risk to their own or others’ health and safety. It is not the intention to exclude a person from a job but to make any necessary reasonable modifications or adjustments to the job to allow the person to work efficiently and safely.

Services and Support

Occupational Health provides a range of services to provide specialist advice, guidance and information to managers and employees. This includes reasonable adjustments, health screening (drivers health screen, forklift trucks, stack trucks and cranes; food handlers); health surveillance (hearing and lung-function assessments; hand arm vibration assessments) pre-placement health assessments workplace advice (general; display screen assessments; lifting and handling)

About us

Who we Are

Furze Health Ltd is experienced in delivering flexible, bespoke, business-appropriate occupational health solutions to a wide range of clients in all sectors.

We understand that customers want the option of service choice and flexibility. Furze Health Limited provides expert and bespoke support in setting-up or improving occupational health delivery for businesses. 

Whether you are looking for regular on site services or an as and when required service we can tailor our offerings to the needs of your organisation ensuring you meet legislative requirements, reduce business risk in relation to health, maximise attendance and create the environment to improve the health and wellbeing of your employees.

Our pragmatic recommendations are delivered at a competitive price to drive best value.

What We Do

Absence Management (Management Referrals)

Managers can refer staff for assessment where there is concern that a health problem may be affecting attendance, performance or safety. 

 

The range of problems which may lead to management referral include:

 

  • Fitness for work following illness or injury.
  • Long-term or frequent sickness absence.
  • Deteriorating work performance/conduct associated with health problems.
  • Actual or suspected work-related adverse health effects.
  • Work placement advice under the Equality Act 2010. 

Health Surveillance and Fitness for Work Medicals

What is Health Surveillance

 

Health surveillance is a system of ongoing health checks, whereby the outcomes are fed back into the risk management loops to review existing control measures. These health checks may be required by law for employees who are exposed to noise or vibration, ionising radiation, solvents, fumes, dusts, biological agents and other substances hazardous to health, or work in compressed air.

We support you to comply with Health and Safety Legislation by working with your business to identify workplace hazards then creating a suitable health surveillance programme that is in line with statutory and industry best practice requirements.

Audiometry (Hearing Tests)

Lung Function (Spirometry) Assessments

Skin (Dermatology) Assessments

Vision Testing

Hand Arm Vibration Tier 1-3 Assessments

Confined Space and Work at Height Medical

Forklift & Mobile Plant Medicals

Company Drivers & New Starter Medicals

OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS

What you can expect from Furze Health Ltd

Professional staff

We have professional staff that have many years of experience in what they do.

Cost Effective

Our pragmatic recommendations are delivered at a competitive price to drive best value.

Efficient

We provide a fast service designed to deliver a straightforward experience for our customers. We aim to respond within 24-48hours of an enquiry being made.

Bespoke Service

We provide a personal touch to offer you a unique bespoke approach to the management of your workplace health.

Equality Act 2010: Guidance

Health surveillance and occupational health

Work-related stress Management

HSE Online DSE Assessment Tool

Contact us

Call us at

0330 133 6554

E-mail us at

occupational.health@furze-health.co.uk

Address

Furze Health Ltd 124 City Road, London EC1V 2NX