Health, work and wellbeing

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Health, workand well-being

• Daniel Richards
• Occupational Health Adviser
• Occupational Health Unit

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Health, workand well-being____________

• Occupational Health Unit

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Occupational Health Unit

• advisory service
• for employees and employer
• impartial
• confidential

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Why have anOccupational Health service?

• to help meet statutory requirements
• good practice
• benefit to staff

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health surveillance for identified staffhealth
promotionfor all staffhealth advicefor
managers and for employees
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Health Promotion

• Healthy
• Working
• Lives
• training
• policy input, working groups

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www.safety.ed.ac.uk
Health (incl. O.H.)
JogScotland Paths to Health Health for Life
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Health Advice

• sickness absence management
• a health issue affecting work
• management referral
• self-referral
• general advice

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Health issues affecting work

• Very varied .
• musculoskeletal problems
• stress (work and /or life)
• elective or emergency surgery
• dermatitis
• alcohol problems
• chemotherapy etc etc

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Contacting Occupational Health

• phone or email enquiry
• management referral (via referral form)
• self-referral (phone or email)
• online report of suspected or confirmed
  occupational ill-health

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First Aid provision
within each department
e firstaid.training _at_ ed.ac.uk
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Occupational Health Staff

• Dominique Desoutter manager
• Janet Craig senior adviser
• Daniel Richards adviser
• Marie Clarke secretary
• Bernard Kuenssberg physician
• Drummond Street Annexe
• (between South Bridge and Pleasance)

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Workstation risk assessment

• www.safety.ed.ac.uk/safenet/risk_assess/DSE.shtm

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t (6)50 8190
e occupational.health_at_ed.ac.uk