OH3 are specialists in employee health surveillance, safeguarding the health of your workplace
OH3 can help you to maintain a healthy workforce through regular occupational health surveillance. We can manage the health requirements of your organisation, whether your company is a small vehicle repair garage or a large manufacturing plant.
A health surveillance programme is a series of recurring health checks on your employees, which in certain situations is required by law. This is to determine the health of your workforce if they are exposed to substances that could damage their health during the course of their work. These substances could be biological agents, solvents, ionising radiation, dusts, fumes or even noise and vibrations.
At OH3 we understand that you need a service that can respond quickly to your occupational health requirements, our SEQOHS Accredited clinical team provide you with expert health surveillance provision for the management of employee health in the workplace.
Workplace Health Surveillance in Newcastle, Edinburgh & UK-wide
Occupational health surveillance for the engineering, manufacturing, construction and other high risk industries
At OH3 we provide the full remit of services for many different types of high risk industries to comply with health and safety legislation and promote health and wellbeing in the workforce, which includes health surveillance.
OH3 will work closely with your organisation to identify health risks, managing your health surveillance requirements to ensure that employees remain fit and healthy. This will safeguard your workforce from ill health due to their work whilst improving the health and safety performance of the company.
We can look after the employee health of large multi-site organisations or provide smaller organisations the services they require in order to implement an effective health surveillance system. This can be done from either our Newcastle or Edinburgh occupational health clinics, or anywhere in the UK with our mobile health unit.
You can see the comprehensive list of services that we offer below and how these types of health surveillance medical assessments protect employee health from certain risk factors.
Audiometry
If your organisation’s risk assessment of noise at work shows your staff are at risk of damaging their hearing, you need to implement a hearing occupational health surveillance program including audiometry testing. As well as helping to protect your employees hearing, this can also protect your organisation from future litigation.
OH3’s hearing test programs are compliant with HSE health screening requirements. The tests will identify any hearing loss and we assess if this could be related to exposure to noise at work or due to other factors such as the individual’s hobbies or medical factors. The program will also aid the company in determining if your exposure controls are effective.
Spirometry (Lung Function Tests)
If your employees work with chemicals or dust that can be irritating to the respiratory system or can cause sensitisation by inhalation they may need regular respiratory health surveillance medicals. OH3’s respiratory surveillance medicals include the assessment of a health questionnaire and spirometry testing (lung function test). The tests can be conducted onsite to minimise time away from work.
A spirometry test is a simple way for our medical team to help monitor certain lung conditions by measuring the amount of air breathed out in one forced breath. The device used for this is called a spirometer which is connected by a cable to the mouthpiece which is breathed into.
Isocyanate Urine Screening
Isocyanates are used in various types of products such as paints, foam and glues. If employees are exposed to isocyanates it can cause sensitisation and may lead to occupational asthma. If employees are working with products containing isocyanates we recommend that this test is conducted as part of their health surveillance program.
Isocyanate screening is a specific urine test which is sent to a biological monitoring laboratory to assess the exposure by measurement of the isocyanate breakdown products in the sample.
Skin Assessments
Employees exposed to specific chemicals, oils, dusts, latex or whose hands are frequently wet can develop allergic skin reactions. If left untreated these conditions may become chronic and permanent which may lead to the employee being unable to work and the risk of litigation. If work sensitisers are the cause then it may be reportable under RIDDOR. OH3 conduct skin checks as part of a health surveillance program. This involves the employee completing a detailed skin specific questionnaire, examination of exposed skin areas and advice on skin care.
Hand Arm Vibration (Havs) Assessments
If any of your employees use hand-held power tools (i.e, hammer drills, polishers, sanders, grinders) you may need health surveillance to comply with the regulations to help protect your employees. OH3 can advise your organisation on the level of assessments you require. The assessments are carried out by our HSL vibration trained occupational health physicians and OH advisors. The results contain detailed review recommendations and staging as per Stockholm grading, implications for continued use of vibrating tools are given in the management report. OH3 conduct the Tier Assessments 1-5 for HAVS assessments.
Fork Lift Medicals
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recommends all lift truck operators should have a medical assessment before employment as a fork lift driver, then regularly from age 40.
A lift truck operator at the age of 65 or over should probably have annual assessments for fitness. We would also advise that employers assess employees medical fitness to drive if they have been absent from work for more than a month or if they have an illness, injury or have commenced medication that could affect their ability to safely operate trucks.
Confined Space Medicals
Employees working in confined spaces may require a medical to check their fitness for this specific work. This is conducted by an occupational Health Advisor. A confined space is an area that is enclosed and also has a reasonable risk for employees operating in the area, such as a heightened risk of fire, drowning, asphyxiation or potential loss of consciousness. This could be a small or restrictive space which an employee is required to work in, or potentially a larger space such as a sealed storage silo.
Height Workers Medicals
Some employees are required to work at heights such as riggers, telecommunication engineers and wind turbine workers. These employees should undergo regular medicals to assess fitness to work at heights. This involves a general health screen (vision, BP, bmi, etc), a grip strength test, urinalysis, a fitness test (Chester Step) and a consultation with an occupational health nurse.
Drug & Alcohol Testing
If your organisation’s risk assessment of noise at work shows your staff are at risk of damaging their hearing, you need to implement a hearing occupational health surveillance program including audiometry testing. As well as helping to protect your employees hearing, this can also protect your organisation from future litigation. OH3’s hearing test programs are compliant with HSE health screening requirements. The tests will identify any hearing loss and we assess if this could be related to exposure to noise at work or due to other factors such as the individual’s hobbies or medical factors. The program will also aid the company in determining if your exposure controls are effective.
Other Occupational Health Services
OH3 is a an occupational health provider that is well placed to look after your entire occupational health needs. Not only do we specialise in health surveillance medicals, but we can also provide a range of other occupational health assessments such as safety critical medicals. We provide these also alongside new-starter medicals, onsite DSE assessments for employees working at desks, night worker assessments as well as teleconsultations for absence management, helping you to reduce sickness leave within your organisation. Finally we also offer counselling and mental health support, providing a comprehensive occupational health service that employers and HR teams can rely on.
Occupational health services for employers, companies and organisationsSEQOHS Accredited Health Surveillance Services
High quality occupational health surveillance for your employees
For many years OH3 has been a leading provider of health surveillance services, protecting the health of employees in our clinics in Newcastle and Edinburgh. This is as well as working UK-wide with use of our mobile health unit and by providing our health surveillance medicals onsite at our clients premises.
OH3 is proud to have achieved our reaccreditation for SEQOHS, which is the quality accreditation from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.
We have been commended for our proactive approach and excellent feedback.
A huge thanks goes to all of our clinical and non-clinical team for their professionalism, helpfulness and quality of service delivery that they provide on a daily basis.
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Occupational health service testimonials
Below is feedback from our occupational health clients, which is collected and verified as part of receiving SEQOHS Accreditation:
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Clinic Feedback:
“The nurses have been great when onsite, thank you!”
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Clinic Feedback:
“With the pandemic going on they were very professional”
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Clinic Feedback:
“The turnaround has been very speedy and the quality of the reports are excellent”
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Clinic Feedback:
“Happy with the service”