Do you need workplace hearing tests?
As an employer, it is your legal responsibility to provide health surveillance in the form of hearing tests if:
- The noise level in your workplace exceeds the upper exposure value of 85dB(A)
- An employee has a predisposed risk to noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL)
Workplace hearing tests help you to fulfil your legal requirements by:
- Identifying employees that show early signs of hearing damage
- Providing an opportunity to prevent hearing damage from getting worse
- Checking the effectiveness of existing control measures
Pre-employment audiometry testing should take place to establish a baseline of hearing, followed by annual testing for the first two years of employment. Audiometry may then be carried out over three yearly intervals. Where a hearing abnormality is identified or the risk of hearing damage is high audiometry may be carried out more frequently.
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Safety Critical Medicals
Under current health and safety legislation, employers have a duty of care to prevent the ill-health of their workers. This is particularly relevant to those carrying out safety-critical tasks. It is important that safety-critical workers are not suffering from medical conditions or undergoing any medical treatment which is likely to cause sudden loss of consciousness or incapacity, impairment of awareness, concentration, balance or coordination or significant limitation of mobility.
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Medical Surveillance
At Staywell, we are pleased to offer a comprehensive range of flexible, cost effective, health surveillance programmes across the UK. We work in partnership with our clients helping you to ensure that workplace risks are effectively managed and monitored to provide a safe working environment and protect the ongoing health of your employees.
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Health Surveillance
Testing is carried out by a fully qualified occupational health (OH) clinician. We monitor for all four stages of hand arm vibration syndrome and provide audiometry, spirometry and skin assessments. Our on-site service caters for both day and night shifts and is designed to minimise any disruption to your business.
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Employee Health Screening
Our complrehensive screening comprises a combination of tests, which offer the employee an overview of their current health status and a means of managing their own health and wellbeing. We manage all aspects of the service, managing the administration via our booking system through to producing simple, actionable health reports for individuals and organisations. Our services can be provided as a one off project or as part of an integrated programme and we can screen as many or as few employees as you wish.
Find out more Lead, radiation & asbestos medicals
Workers involved with asbestos, lead, compressed air or ionising radiations will require medical assessments under specific regulations, conducted by an HSE appointed (OH) doctor. The nature and frequency of these medicals are specific to the defined hazards and are described in our supporting guidance.
Find out more Health promotion
The workplace has a direct influence on the physical, mental and social wellbeing of its workforce, with sickness absence costing businesses £14 billion a year and three out of four employees believing that their health and wellbeing affects work performance. Through programmes that focus on preventative health and life style modification, we can help you identify, implement and assess the health promotion needs in your business to suit all scopes and budgets which you can incorporate as and when you need them.
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Management Referrals
We offer easy access to occupational health assessments which provide expert advice, rapid response times and cost-effective pay as you go OH advice. Our completed assessments help you to understand what your employee needs to feel better, return to work, do their job safely and avoid anything that could cause further health or absence issues
Find out more Fit for Task Medicals for High-Risk Work
These health assessments can help decide whether an employee can safely carry out a specific job or task. Staywell offer a comprehensive service that will enable your organisation to meet its legal obligations, help to minimise workplace incidents and proactively protect your employee’s health. We have considerable experience in performing forklift truck, working at heights and confined spaces medicals, to name a few.
Find out more Occupational Health Services
A proactive occupational health service is essential in helping you to protect and retain the people that make your business a success. We work alongside your organisation to develop a strategy unique to your organisation that can help you to reduce staff turnover, manage sickness absence and improve employee productivity, wellbeing and safety.
Find out more Pre Placement Medical Screening
We provide the option of a online, paper screen and a face to face consultation for new employees joining the company. This is to ensure that they are fit to carry out the work expected of them and any adjustments that need to be made due to presenting health problems can be highlighted. If required, this can also include health surveillance tests, to integrate the employee seamlessly into the companies health surveillance programme.
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EAP Services
The fast pace of business life with its focus on performance culture can result in a high level of pressure placed on employees. Employee assistance programs can make a tangible difference, improving an individual’s ability to do their job through the provision of a 24/7, confidential Freephone support service. With access to counselling, information guidance & referrals on any work, personal or family issue we are here to help employees stay happy, healthy and fully focused on life and work.
Find out more Drug & Alcohol Screening
Whether drug & alcohol testing is a regulatory requirement or implemented for best practice we have a wide range of services to support you. These include testing, drug & alcohol policy formation, training & education, and background checking. We recognise the importance of the accuracy and integrity of test results which is why we provide a legally defensible chain of custody screening and confirmation testing across the UK.
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