Workplaces experience various employee absences. In fact, sickness absences across the UK have increased drastically over the years due to issues like poor mental health and musculoskeletal (MSK) injuries. Overall, an estimated 185.6 million working days are lost per year.
In the workplace, every staff member has at some point in their lives experienced poor mental health; this can be due to stress, depression, anxiety and it can be for a ranging amount of time. MSK issues arise often, no matter what type of job people are working, but it can be prevented, just like poor mental health.
That’s why it’s important to have support available through occupational health. It can offer early intervention, preventing people from being off sick for long periods of time, but it can also help those who are off sick or have been for a while, return to work effectively.
How do absences impact businesses?
For employers, it’s incredibly important to recognise the reasons for absences because they have a greater impact on business than one might think. Poor mental health, MSK issues, etc. can cause increased absences, lower tangible returns, higher costs due to presenteeism and absenteeism, lower productivity and staffing issues. All of which cost organisations a lot and in recent years, poor health and absences costs UK employers over £100bn annually.
How Choose Occupational Health can help?
At Choose, we want to help create happier, healthier workforce’s and to do so we have a wide range of services to suit individual business needs. We offer absence management; which provides employers with information and advice about employee’s conditions, in order to help them remain at work or return to work quickly and safely.
Reasonable adjustments and support can be offered based around the employees individual needs, as well as the organisation’s. This information and care, helps employers identify what needs to be done so that businesses can run smoothly, despite employee illness. We make sure that employees get the correct and necessary support that suits their needs, so that they can regain their health and continue to thrive at work.
The benefits for employers:
The services we offer ensure that employers and employees are equipped and have the necessary support to tackle many health conditions, including mental health and wellbeing, and remain productive at work. With occupational health support, there comes a lot of benefits for businesses, such as less absences, lower costs, less presenteeism, higher productivity, and higher returns on investment (ROI).
For further information about the support we can offer you, contact the Choose team on 01228 513687 or office@chooseoh.co.uk