Specialist Occupational Health Advice and Support

Occupational health programmes can play a vital role in supporting staff when they are off sick with a mental health problem, and in helping them back to work.

Health for work advice line

If you work for a small business in England your employer can call the health for work advice line for information about how to provide the best occupational health support.

NHS Plus

NHS Plus offers a range of services through a national network of over 100 NHS Occupational Health businesses, designed to meet the needs of both large and smaller businesses.

Good business sense

Occupational safety and health (OSH) is good for business as well as being a legal and social obligation. This factsheet outlines the business case for SMEs as well as large organsiations.

Free toolkit to support you

This free resource is produced by IOSH, Europe's largest membership organisation for occupational health and safety professionals.

Workplace interventions

The British Occupational Health Research Foundation outlines workplace interventions for people with common mental health problems.

Providing a resource

Occupational Health can work with Human Resources to produce a realistic assessmetn of how an employee can be supported at work and remain at, or return to, work.  The Health and Safety Executive set out some some basic principles for how employers and employees can work together.

Occupational health factsheet

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development sets the context for occupational health services, highlights the role of occupational health services, and outlines the elements for an action plan.

Case studies

The Port of London Authority implemented an effective sickness absence management policy, which cut the level of absences and supported staff during ill health absence.

Cougar Automation more than halved sickness absence and improved staff retention by putting health and safety at the heart of their business.