Occupational Health Testing & Safety Training Consultants

Specialized Occupational Health and Safety firms employ specially qualified and certified physicians and nurses who use sophisticated technologies and techniques to deliver highly reliable, useful, value adding services for employers of all types and sizes.

Generally, professional Occupational Health & Safety services fall into several categories:

1.) Management Consulting, to help ensure Regulatory Compliance in the workplace. Workplace assessments involve testing of air quality, noise levels and other factors which can cause potentially serious damage to the health of employees. If ignored, these will employers at serious risk of incurring the significant costs of defending lawsuits and ultimately paying settlements, of dramatically increased insurance premiums, and of diminished reputations in the marketplace.

2.) Pre-Employment Medical Examinations. These can include pulmonary function tests, tests to determine a candidate's ability to see, hear, lift weights etc., tests to detect latent diseases and/or banned substances, and others.

3.) Employee Health Testing and Assessments. These may include full or partial physical examinations, plus testing as listed under #2.

4.) Teaching of Highly Effective Health-related Practices In The Workplace - Basic training programs enable Employees to recognize and respond appropriately to all types of hazards that might occur in their workplace (i.e. -"WHMIS" training). - Specialized safety training is usually available for truckers, operators of forklifts or heavy equipment, and those who handle explosives or corrosive chemicals on the job. - Some Occupational Health & Safety service providers offer specialized lifeskills courses such as First Aid, CPR, preventative health management, and courses on common problems such as the management of stress, diet, exercise, sleep, high blood pressure, addictions, and other health-related issues (sometimes including preventative mental health management).

5.) Some providers also offer ongoing workforce health surveillance with standardized annual comparisons; and/or,

6.) Preventative health management; and/or,

7.) Rehabilitation management programs.
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Shaune MacLeod RN is a Customer Service Manager with OCCU-MED Health Services Inc. and a regular contributor to businessmatch-maker.com.