Services | Occupational Medicine
Pre-Employment
Medical Assessments
Business Health Ireland provides job-specific pre-placement and pre-employment
medical assessments for your organisation. The reasons for pre-employment
medicals include:
- Determine one’s fitness for the proposed work
- Establish and recommend any job restriction or accommodation required
- Establish baseline health information
- Detection of previously undiagnosed medical condition
- Provision of appropriate personal protection prior to job commencement
(such as vaccinations against potential biological hazards)
- Opportunity for health promotion (for example, obesity management and smoking
cessation) and for education on areas such as potential hazards and on the use
of Personal Protective Equipment.
- Ensure legislative compliance.
Pre-employment medicals assessments may comprise a questionnaire,
physical examination, specific tests (such as a hearing test, lung
function test, vision screening, blood test, urine test, drug screen,
skin allergy test, ECG etc.)
Business Health Ireland have an online
Pre-Employment
Questionnaire. This online questionnaire is designed to enable us
to:
- determine your fitness to safely carry out the duties of a specific
role
- minimise the risk of aggravating a pre-existing condition
- protect you as a potential employee, and your colleagues and the
general public from any medical-related risk
- recommend appropriate job accommodations or restrictions required
to facilitate you carrying out your duties safely and to allow your
employer to fulfil their legal and ethical responsibilities.
This questionnaire has been designed to allow you to complete it online.
You will need the free Adobe
Acrobat Reader software (version 8 or higher), which you can download here.
Alternatively, you can simply print out this questionnaire and post
it to Business Health Ireland. If you have any questions regarding
this form, please contact Business Health Ireland on +353 (0)25 85979
or email info@bhi.ie.
Fitness for work certificates will be issued after the assessment.
For more information, please contact
us.
Fitness to Work Assessment
A Fitness to Work assessment is a medical assessment to determine
if one is physically and mentally capable to carry out the specific
duties. This assessment may be required for reasons including:
- pre-transfer
- pre-placement or after illness
- injuries
- prolonged absence from
work
- poor work performance
- as part of legal requirement (for example, firefighter,
offshore workers, commercial driver).
Business Health Ireland will provide recommendations for regarding
fitness to work, duty modifications, job accommodation, tasks and equipment
to match one’s capacity to the job requirement. We offer a confidential
assessment and will provide an independent and objective report to
management.
For more information, please contact
us.
Sickness
Absence Review, Occupational Rehabilitation and
Return to Work Programs
The financial cost of sickness absence is substantial: reports suggest
that British businesses lose £34 billion a year due to sick days, with
an employee taking an average of 13 days per year from illnesses.
This
means that each employee costs their employer approximately £1,200
per annum in sick days.
Be it frequent short term or infrequent but long term absences, work
absence has a negative impact for both the employee (a decreased confidence
at work, poor attendance record, “sick role”, job loss, psychosocial
implications and so on) and the employer (reduced productivity, increased
cost, poor staff morale, need for temporary cover, poor corporate image).
Business Health Ireland, through multidisciplinary medical rehabilitation
and occupational rehabilitation, can help to optimise the medical management
of the condition. We can offer an occupational medicine review and
proactive management (and prevention) of sickness absences, and can
deliver an active return to work programme. This will allow your organisation
to improve your absenteeism rate, business performance and employee
health.
For more information, please contact
us.
Health Surveillance
and Noise Conservation Programme
Business Health Ireland can help your organisation to identify
health hazards and set up a monitoring programme to prevent and detect
ill health resulting from such exposure.
This service Involves periodic monitoring and re-evaluation through
health surveillance of the employees and also of the environment.
Business Health Ireland offers medical health surveillance ranging
from self reporting, questionnaire screening, physical examination
(such as skin surveillance) to specific tests such as audiometric test,
visual test, lung function test and biological tests (blood or urine
tests, ECG test etc.)
For more information, please contact
us.
Health Promotion
Business Health Ireland provides a broad spectrum of services and
activities with the aim of promoting good health and preventing both
work and non work related illnesses.
Our multidisciplinary team is always on hand to advise on health promotion
programs suitable for the needs of your organisation and staff, in
areas such as:
- weight management
- blood pressure
- cholesterol monitoring
- smoking cessation
- immunisation (flu vaccinations, for example)
- mental health care
- back care
- hand hygiene
For more information, please contact
us.
General Medical
Screening and 'Well Men' Medical Programs
- Preventive Medicine, available for corporate and private individuals
- Executive health screening
- Well Men medicals
- Pre- and post-travel medical
- Osteoporosis screening
- Blood pressure and cholesterol screening
For more information, please contact
us.
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