Pre-placement

Why do pre-placement health assessments?

When new people join the team, there is lots of enthusiasm and expectation. Pre-placement health assessments play a key role in creating safe and supportive workplaces where barriers to work are removed and people can thrive.

Behind-the-scenes steps are essential if every employee is to be set up for fail-safe success.

New starter health assessment procedure

All our pre-placement services are delivered via digital health assessment including express, informed consent
Instant report recommending adjustments to reduce barriers linked to health impairments
Instant ‘No consent’ report

🦠 Infection prevention and control health checks

🔬 Specialist checks are available for occupations involving environments where infectious diseases are present.
£ PAYG, subject to test-specific costs, depending on the need for blood tests and vaccinations. (UKHSA guidance)

Fitness for work assessment

The main objectives of a Fitness for Work Assessment:

Evaluate an individual’s suitability for hazardous activities and exposures and identify their individual health and safety needs.
Inform managers about a candidate’s fitness for a specific role.
- Ensure that an individual can carry out their job tasks efficiently and without jeopardising their own health or the safety of others.

Rather than being a tool to exclude someone from a role, it focuses on identifying and implementing reasonable adjustments or modifications to support the individual in performing their duties safely and effectively.

Access to work needs assessment

Some people need specialist arrangements or equipment, without which they cannot access work, regardless of “reasona ble adjustments“:

Communication support for job interviews*
Changes to the recruitment process
Specialist equipment*, if not “reasonably practicable” for the employer
Assistive software*, if not available within standard accessibility features
Support workers, like a BSL interpreter, a job coach or a travel buddy*
Costs of travelling to work, if they cannot use public transport*
Adaptations to their vehicle so they can get to work*
physical changes to the workplace*

*Funding is available through the Government Access to Work scheme, click here

First aid needs assessment

Do you know of foreseeable medical emergencies in your business? It all starts here.
Understanding First Aid is life changing—it equips you to respond effectively to illness or injury when the unexpected – and the possible – happens.

A First Aid Needs Assessment determines what’s required to keep everyone safe and ensures that First Aid arrangements are both sufficient and appropriate.
Do you know the vulnerabilities and health needs of your workforce? We offer initial health-risk assessments via our sister company Intelligent OH
Some common medical conditions can lead to emergency first aid situations, and these need specific first aid resources in high risk environments or where emergency services are more than 4 minutes away.

Did you know:

Some fruits allergies are associated with latex allergy this is called cross-reactivity? First Aiders may need to be trained to administer an adrenaline auto-injector (e.g., EpiPen).
Some blood conditions and medication can increase the risk of significant blood loss and shock after injury or periods of stress. First Aiders may need additional training and boxes may need to include additional personal protective equipment to ensure infection prevention and control.
Some skin conditions increase susceptibility to severe burns and scalds. Additional or specialist personal protective equipment may be needed for work involving heat, chemicals, electricity, or radiation.
Neurological conditions and facial differences may increase the risk of choking. Colleagues may need training to perform back blows and abdominal thrusts (Heimlich manoeuvre) to dislodge the object.
Heart conditions are often a hidden first aid risk. First Aiders may need to be trained to give them aspirin – if they are not allergic.
Fractures are more common in people with conditions and medication that reduces bone density. First Aiders need training to manage high risk environments such as working at height, moving machinery and vehicles, heavy moving and handling, uneven ground and poor visibility.