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To satisfy statutory requirements.
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control health risks appropriate to the industry’s needs.
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ensure each employee is fit for the duties they are required to undertake.
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identify any disease or condition associated with the work undertaken
by the company’s employees.
- To
identify individual employees whose health has been affected by working
conditions.
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introduce a system which recognises and detects the onset of adverse
effects on employees’ state of health and to limit and/or prevent
further damage being caused to employees’ health.
- To
monitor known or existing conditions and so highlight patterns and trends,
enabling further investigation and diagnosis of potential problems.
- To
assess and monitor the on-going effectiveness of the company’s
health & safety measures policies.
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benefit individual employees and worker groups by producing a better
standard of health for employees and so enhance the quality of their
working life.
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reduce health & safety risks to the lowest level reasonably practical
and in so doing meeting the company’s statutory duty imposed by
health and safety legislation.
- Health
testing from the start of employment can identify unfit candidates,
giving the opportunity for de-selection or so that known health conditions
can be controlled before causing problems and lead to losses and compensation
claims.
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limit/prevent employee absence through long-standing ill-health which
in turn leads to repeated loss of work and early retirement.
- To
advertise the fact that the company is pro-active in the pursuit of
its health and safety policy.
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