A leading provider of Occupational Health services in Guernsey and the Bailiwick.
Queen's Road Medical Practice's aim is to deliver a flexible range of pro-active, forward thinking and cost effective Occupational Health services in Guernsey, designed to meet the needs of modern business.
What Is Occupational Health?
Occupational Health actively promotes and maintains good health in the workplace, ensures legal compliance and supports employers and employees when health problems occur. Making Occupational Health a core function of your business in Guernsey recognises your corporate and social responsibilities and demonstrates your commitment to the health of your staff which will have a hugely positive impact on your customers.
Benefits to your business include:
Tailored Occupational Health
All companies are unique with different hazard and risk profiles. Queen's Road Medical Practice offer a flexible service which is matched to each client's specific needs and their success lies in working as part of your team. They will provide an initial review of your premises/operations before proposing a suitable package. The content of each package will be tailored to your needs and can include all, or a selection, of the following:
Provision of an Occupational Physician - Dr Robert Gallagher MB ChB BSc(Hons) DRCOG DFFP DOccMed MRCGP, Occupational Health Nurse and/or physiotherapist or osteopath.
A range of medical examinations for recruitment, statutory or other purposes.
Routine and/or periodic health surveillance for groups of workers.
Ergonomic assessments in your workplace by the Practice Osteopath.
An experienced qualified Occupational Health physician, with the expertise to advise on and deliver the package that is appropriate to your workplace and environment.
Pre-employment Medicals
Queen's Road Medical Practice can provide confidential pre-employment assessments through questionnaires and medical screening to ensure the appropriate matching of prospective employees to proposed occupations. This is through assessment of physical and psychological capabilities measured against specific job function criteria. Either an Occupational Health Nurse or Physician will carry out the assessment consulting, as necessary, with the line manager, the individual and the individual's GP. A certificate of fitness is issued on completion.
Sickness Absence Management
Queen's Road Medical Practice provide sound medical solutions with focused advice. Their experience of dealing with the impact of health and work in Guernsey ensures that the advice provided by their Occupational Health professionals is to the benefit of both the employee and employer. The need to pro-actively and effectively manage sickness absence is of key importance in every workplace as its impact has a damaging effect on the profitability and success of your business. Occupational Health can have a fundamental role in supporting Managers and Human Resource Professionals to effectively manage employees back to work as quickly and as efficiently as possible.
Occupational Health Referrals
Your employees are your most valuable asset. Queen's Road Medical Practice's Occupational Health Referral Programme is founded on the principal that prevention is better than cure. Early detection of, and intervention in, health problems of key staff is consistent with this principal and clearly demonstrates your commitment to your employee's current and future health and well being.
Workplace Vaccinations
At work we are all subject to risks but vaccinations can protect us against many of these risks. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999, employers have a legal duty to protect the health of their employees. Under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 (COSHH) you have a legal duty to assess the risk of infection for employees and others affected by your work. When the risk is known, you need to take suitable precautions to protect their health. The range of available vaccines include:
Hepatitis A
Hepatitis B
Influenza
Pneumovax
Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS)
Exposure to Hand Arm Vibration (HAV) can lead to damage to the structure and tissue of the hands and eventually lead to Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). Symptoms of HAVS can include impaired circulation (leading to Vibration White Finger), reduced sense of touch, numbness and tingling, stiffness of the joints, and reduced grip strength and manual dexterity. HAVS is commonly associated with tasks involving hand-held power tools, hand-guided equipment and holding of materials or work pieces that are presented for machining.
An employer has a duty to provide health surveillance for all their employees in Guernsey who, despite actions to control the risk, are likely to be regularly exposed above the exposure action value or are considered to be at risk for any other reason. The Health and Safety Executive Guidance (HSG88) recommends a preventative approach to control the risk of injury.
Our Occupational Health professionals can monitor Hand Arm Vibration exposure using specialised equipment. The purpose of Hand Arm Vibration health surveillance is to:
Identify anyone exposed or about to be exposed to hand-arm vibration who may be at particular risk, for example people with blood circulatory diseases such as Raynaud's Disease.
To identify any vibration-related disease at an early stage in employees regularly exposed to hand-held vibration.
To help prevent disease progression and eventually disability.
To help people stay in work.
To check the effectiveness of control measures.
Appointments
Appointments for all occupational health services should be made via email please to:
elliemckenzie@eqrmp.com
Surgery Opening Hours
Monday - Friday 8.00am-6.00 pm
Saturday 8.00am-12.00 pm
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