Occupational health role in absence management

Are you wondering how to deal with illness at your workplace? Sometimes it can get out of hand with workers taking days off willy-nilly.  Or maybe you have some employees on long term sick?
An occupational health service can help you with both these issues - by talking to workers who you believe may need more help or just to check that they are getting the right treatment.
More information is available on my website blogs here:

1. Manager Guide: Requesting a Management Referral to Occupational Health
2. Manager FAQ Occupational Health and Absence

Further Advice and Reading

• What is Occupational Health? Video
• Absence resources
• Using the Bradford Index to Manage Absence – some simple steps on how to measure and deal with short and long-term absence
• Employer handbook for statutory sick pay – including Statutory Sick Pay rates and tables. Issued April 2013
• Long term absence and incapacity for work – guidance from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Managing Absence and Return to Work – guidance from the Health and Safety Executive
• Employers Charter – Information produced in 2012 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills in the form of a leaflet with links to more information about what employers can and can’t do.