The pre-employment health screen

-Establishes if a prospective worker is suitable for the proposed role through comprehensive screening. This can include the following; Personal health history assessment, audiometry, spirometry, blood & urine tests, cardiovascular check, vision check, body mass index (BMI), musculoskeletal assessment, occupational and ACC history, drug and alcohol testing.

-Establishes baseline health for annual health monitoring, to ensure your obligations are met.

The type of pre-employment health tests your workers will require depends on your business specific health risks.

An annual medical health screen is essential for workplaces, to ensure workplace health hazards are not affecting employee health.

Annual Medical can include:

Health & exposure details questionnaire

Audiometry (hearing) test

Spirometry (lung function) test

Vision assessment

Musculoskeletal assessment

Cardiovascular check (blood pressure, heart rate & rhythm, oxygen saturation, cholesterol check, blood sugar check)

Height, weight, BMI (body mass index)

Wellness check

Epworth sleepiness/ fatigue scale

Urinalysis

Drug and alcohol test

Ergonomic/ workstation

assessment

The type of annual medical assessments will be tailored to the workplace.

On employee departure from your organisation, it is a good idea to carry out an exit medical. This ensures you are able to establish that your employee's health has not been affected in a negative way throughout employment.

Taylored Health Service can provide an Exit Health Screen and declaration from your employee prior to an employee departing your organisation.

A drug and alcohol testing programme helps employers ensure all employees behave safely and that any incident of unsafe behaviour is thoroughly investigated.

Workers under the influence of drugs and alcohol are classified as a risk to themselves and others. The Health and Safety in Employment Act amendments (2002) have made employers responsible for managing hazardous behaviours in the workplace.

Taylored Health are accredited (NZQA 25458) collectors of samples for drug urine testing.

How healthy are your employees from a holistic perspective?

Wellness checks are all about opening conversations and establishing a holistic approach to health checks.

For more information contact Taylored Health Service

Ergonomic workstation assessments involves an evaluation of an employee at their workstation to ensure optimal working postures and ergonomic work practices, correct workstation set up and ergonomic equipment recommendations, where appropriate.

Ergonomic workstation assessment are not limited to desk users either. A workstation could be any work space, bench, area or vehicle where a worker is required to work at for a length of time.

Poor ergonomic setup can play a significant role in the development of many preventable musculoskeletal disorders, thus preventative management through workstation assessment on initiation of the job works to prevent this is optimal.

A workplace health and wellbeing program will positively impact your staffs overall health and wellbeing.

A programme would be customised for your staff with the aim of promoting a healthier lifestyle for all.

The cost of a worker off sick or injured from your workplace can be extreme. Evidence shows that people get better quicker and have less long-term effects when actively rehabilitated.

Taylored Health are trained in developing and implementing return-to-work rehabilitation programmes, to achieve rehabilitation goals.

Our rehabilitation management focuses on fostering a collaborative relationship between all parties – aimed at getting the best outcome for the employee and employer.