Abacus Safety Services can help you take a risk based approach to Health risk management and how your business manages its employee health risks – whether they be work or lifestyle related, or both. The identification of the relevant health risks enables an appropriate service level to be defined, enabling optimum cost benefits to be established with the health provider.

Benefits to your business

Results show that early intervention using the right procedures, occupationally qualified health professionals and the proactive management of employees’ health and care issues can successfully:

• reduce absenteeism and absence-related costs (sick pay/cover/overtime) and encourage people back to work sooner
• identify and help rectify reasons for poor performance
• reduce the impact on pension scheme funds (such as early retirement due to sickness)
• enable you to make informed decisions on employee performance and absence issues
• boost staff performance, productivity and profitability
• reduce employee risk, minimise insurance claims and lower premiums.

Working with your HR people, your employees will receive expert clinical advice, leading to reduced pressure on your line managers.

Specific areas of expertise that can be provided include:

• Rehabilitation
• Absence management
• Occupationally based clinical referrals
• Stress management including embracing the Health and Safety Executives Management guidelines
• Occupational Asthma
• HAV
• Back pain and musculoskeletal problems

You will then be able to provide:

• A case managed, effective route to getting people back to work and delivering good, productive performance
• The information you need to make appropriate decisions on employees performance in order to help alleviate any ongoing cost burden or extended absence