CHI’s Occupational Health Nurses provide an integrated occupational health and safety service to employers and employees. We can contract Occupational Health Nurses to suit the needs of your organisation on an hourly/daily/weekly/yearly basis.
Our Occupational Health Nurse assessments include:
- Pre-Placement/ Pre-employment assessments
- Case management
- Hearing conservation programmes
- Vision screening/Colour vision
- Assessment of functional capacity
- Drugs of abuse screening
- Respiratory surveillance that includes Spirometry (lung function test)
- Workplace hazard identification
- Advice on risk reduction
- Advice on policies and procedures
- Advice on legal/regulatory compliance
- Integration of Health and Safety into overall business strategy
- Health and Safety programme management
- Vaccination programmes
- Emergency treatment
- Counselling and crisis intervention
- Case/Disability management
- Blood screening
- Immunisation/vaccination
- Chester Step test
- Rehabilitation programmes
- Appropriate set up and management of an Occupational Health Unit
- Maintenance of appropriate Occupational health clinical records and advice on appropriate storage of same.
- Occupational Health nurses are also actively involved in health and wellbeing promotions and health surveillance programmes.
- Audit
CHI’s Occupational Health Nurses help workplaces achieve a healthier status and this results in:
- Increased productivity
- Reduced absenteeism
- Fewer occupational and non-occupational injuries and illnesses
- Reduced compensation costs
- Fewer disruptions in day to day business
- Enhanced profile as a caring and responsible organisation.