Hi all

 

My view is that you can only approach this on a cost benefit basis.   I have said before on this forum that we are where we are because those who pay for us do so on the basis that we are a benefit to their business.  Okay, you can argue about the public health benefits but most employers in chastened times want the benefit we bring to their business to be more than it costs them to employ or contract us.

 

Where you have a city office block, a treatment service will be no use at all – dishing out the odd Paracetomol to those who can go the local chemist in their lunch hour is not a good use of our time , let alone our professional capabilities.   Yet in some heavy industry where there are still heightened risks of serious injuries or a car plant where the cost of an unscheduled stop of the production line is £10,000 per minute, the maths can add up to a very different result.

 

Once you have done the cost benefit exercise, you can then get into the debate about who provides it and how – whether it’s OHAs, Practice Nurses, First Aiders, vending machines or some other inventive solution.     

 

Thanks

 

Lindsey

 

 

 

 

So here’s the question then… Is this debate really about what’s best for our service users or is it about how the Occupational Health professional wishes to be perceived?

 

 

Paula

 

 

 

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