Supporting workplaces in monitoring heart health…

Heart health is incredibly important, and it can affect any staff member across the UK and globally. It can be neglected though as people don’t tend to have regular blood pressure checks, until it gets too late with noticeable hypertension problems.

It’s crucial and beneficial for workforces to ‘know their numbers’…

At Choose Occupational Health, we’re dedicated to helping you create a happier, healthier workforce and we can do this through our ranging services like:

  • Health Screening
  • Health Surveillance
  • On-Employment Questionnaires
  • Absence Management
  • Stress Management
  • Health & Wellbeing Promotions

How do these occupational health strategies help businesses?

  • Reduce absence costs
  • Improve productivity
  • Increase profitability
  • Covers health and safety regulations
  • Increase staff retention
  • Stronger operations

For organisations, it’s important to monitor employee health with regular checks so that it can help manage absences, reduce long-term sick leave, reduce costs, and aid in terms of health and safety regulations.

By implementing health and wellbeing strategies with the help of occupational health and more specifically, blood pressure readings or health workshops, employees across the business can remain healthy at work, performing the best that they can. With our stress management workshops and health and wellbeing promotions, we’re able to support workplaces tackle high levels of stress and general health to prevent more serious issues like high blood pressure and cardiovascular problems.

With occupational health, workplaces are able to create productive workforces and stronger operations overall as there’ll be significantly less staffing problems as well as better standards and focus at work. In order for organisations to succeed in their goals, a healthy and positive workforce is needed.

How does heart health impact employees?

Hearts are hidden and so people might not realise if they have high blood pressure or cholesterol. This is very dangerous as it puts them at risk of cardiovascular diseases and problems like strokes, heart attacks, kidney disease, and heart failure.  

By having regular blood pressure checks, people and health professionals are able to monitor whether or not their blood pressure is increasing or is too high. Both of which means that employees and employers can implement health strategies to prevent it becoming too high or to massively reduce it back to normal levels, so that life can go on as normal- including work.

What blood pressure readings mean…

After blood pressure readings, there’ll be 2 numbers, where the first number is higher than the second. The first number is known as systolic and the second is diastolic. Normal readings are less than 120 mm Hg (systolic) and less than 80 mm Hg (diastolic); whereas high blood pressure is 130 mm Hg/ 80 mm Hg. Anything higher than those readings means that a doctor must be contacted immediately.