Occupational Health

EHA (Employment Health Advisors) provide a specialist occupational health and hygiene service throughout Ireland. We can provide occupational health and industrial hygiene services to suit the needs of individual organisations. We are the largest practice offering integrated health and hygiene solutions in Ireland.

Our client base and the calibre of our consultants provides a broad range of experience across many industries. Our Consultants are registered Specialists in Occupational Medicine and are Members of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland.

Our sister company EHA Soft Solutions can also offer you the ability easily record, track and analyse all your patient health information via their Occupational Health Module

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Health Surveillance

Health surveillance programmes aim to identify at the earliest possible stage, health problems that can arise in connection with a particular occupation. In many cases health surveillance is a legal requirement. We can provide a range of health surveillance programmes depending on your organisations specific needs. Health assessments are carried out on a regular basis to detect health conditions related to work an to monitor exposure to various hazards that may have an effect on your employees health.

Our Health Surveillance Programmes include:

• Hearing (audiometric) tests
• Lung function tests
• Skin surveillance
• Vision Screening
• Visual Display Unti Screening
• Respirator fit testing
• Biological monitoring for chemical hazards

All of our health surveillance programs are subject to rigorous quality control procedures.

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The Pre-Employment Medical

As a manager, one is often required to determine whether or not an employee is healthy enough to perform optimally and safely, given the demands and risks of the job. All such decisions should be supported by expert medical opinion.
The pre-employment assessment determines whether a new employee meets the medical requirements of a position. It aims to ensure that the prospective employee is fit to perform the job effectively with reasonable levels of attendance and without risks to their own health or safety or that of other employees.

We also aim to ensure that the organisation complies with current equality legislation.
Our pre-employment assessment contains a number of the following services, which can be tailored to the needs of the organisation:

• Health questionnaire
• Physical examination
• Functional capacity evaluation
• Lung function testing
• Hearing assessment (audiology)
• Substances of abuse testing
• Urine analysis
• Blood screening
• Vision screening including colour vision screening

In addition workers considered to be at risk of contracting infectious diseases are offered screening and immunisation (e.g. hepatitis B, rubella, tuberculosis, tetanus).
At EHA our pre-employment assessment is governed by important principles regarding quality of service. We believe that medical screening should not delay the recruitment process. We can provide appointments within two working days of a request and ensure a quick turnaround of results and reports.

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Health Assessments

Health assessments are essential in determining the ability of an employee to perform the job effectively, efficiently and without further risk to their own health and safety or that of the public or their colleagues. These assessments also need to consider the ability to deliver regular and effective service and the possiblity of altered work performance or conduct.

Assessing employees who have already been identified as having attendance issues is important, to provide prognosis and report on the prospects of fitness to return to work. It is also essential to assess employees to try and improve attendance and to reduce the likelihood of recurring absence. Where absense is due to chronic ill health the employee should be referred for assessment in order to identify what measures may be taken to assist the employee to render regular and efficient service.

Questions which are typically asked as part of the referral include:

• Is the cause of absence work-related or not?
• What is the likely duration of absence
• What is the likelihood of further episodes of sickness absence occcurring
• Are there any measures that can be taken to facilitate the employees return to work
• When the employee returns to work, will he or she be fit to resume the full range of duties
• Are there any fucntional limitations which may temporarily or permanently afeect the employees ability to carry out the full range of duties of the post
• Should redeployment or other adjustments be considered
• Is further review recommended
• Are there any implications for future work perfromance, attendance and saftey?
• Are there any other workplace implications?

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Health Promotion

An organisation's human resource is a very important asset that needs attention and maintenance.
We can offer a number of health promotion activities including:

• Well woman and well man health screening
• Healthy heart campaigns
• Mini health checks
• Smoking cessation advice
• Fitness testing
• Influenza vaccination programmes

Other vaccination programmes as appropriate e.g first aid team, emergency response team, waste water treatment plant employees, sewerage workers and overseas travel advice
General health promotion workshops or presentations can be arranged.

These can include talks and presentations on specific subjects such as:

• Healthy eating
• General fitness and lifestyle advice
• Tie-ins with other national or local events such as No Smoking Day; Health Heart Day
• Cancer awareness; Suicide prevention etc.
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  We would be pleased to discuss your particular needs and develop a package tailored specifically for your business.

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Executive Medical Screening

Every organisation is dependent for it's success on a number of key individuals performing at optimum levels. It is vital that these people are in peak physical and mental health.

In today's global business environment senior management are under increasing pressure to perform. This can lead to intolerable stress levels. Health screening is a proactive approach to medical care. It is aimed at early identification of medical conditions and lifestyle issues at a time when appropriate intervention can reduce the risk to the individual.

We offer a complete, comprehensive and personalised report on every individual allowing a stress profile to be built within an organisation. The service includes an extremely comprehensive physical check including:

• Lifestyle analysis
• General Health Questionnaire
• Pressure Management Indicator (Stress Questionnaire)
• Urinalysis (Screening for kidney disease and diabetes)
• Blood Cholesterol Profile
• Blood Biochemistry (including  liver and kidney function tests)
• Full blood count
• Prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening for prostate cancer
• Resting ECG (Heart Tracing)
• Vision Screen
• Audigram (Hearing Test)
• Spirometry (Lung function test)

and where indicated...