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title: Occupational Health Awareness Week 2024
description: It's Occupational Health Awareness Week 2024 and here's why investing in occupational health is so important and beneficial for businesses.
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# Occupational Health Awareness Week 2024

 Date:  23/09/2024

It's Occupational Health Awareness Week 2024 and here at UKIM we want to highlight the importance and benefits of investing in occupational health. Whilst many organisations may believe that it's just an extra cost, there's a lot of benefits, and actually, organisations gain a return on investment. 

#### UKIM Occupational Health & Wellbeing's Partnership Director, Alan Ballard, explains the value for workplaces when investing in exceptional occupational health & wellbeing, and why it should actually be at the forefront of business' priorities... 

"The most important part of any business is the people that work within it. Occupational health promotes and maintains the highest degree of physical, mental, and social wellbeing of workers in all occupations. The absolute best occupational health services assist businesses to manage and improve employee health at work and further promote health outside of work, supporting all areas of employees’ lives through their working careers. By looking after both physical and mental health, occupational health supports a workplace culture where everyone can be their best.

"UKIM uses multi-disciplinary teams made up of qualified occupational health practitioners, physiotherapists, counsellors, and clinically qualified psychologists to support all aspects of workplace health interventions.  
UKIM OH professionals assess what impact work has on staff health and make sure that staff are fit to undertake the role they are employed to do, providing additional support to improve physical and mental health.

"At UKIM Occupational Health & Wellbeing we:

- Encourage safe working practices to meet health and safety compliance.
- Provide advice on how employees can work better and more productively.
- Monitor the health of the workforce.
- Support the management of sickness absence, including managing difficulties in coping on return after being absent.
- Support health promotion and education programmes.
- Provide advice and counselling to employees around non-health-related problems; and
- Advise on reasonable adjustments to your working conditions."

 

#### Want more Occupational Health insights to help your business? You may also like to read...

- [NHS waitlist set to reach over 8 million by mid 2024 - can Occupational Health Services help?](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/nhs-waitlist-set-to-reach-over-8-million-by-mid-2024-can-occupational-health-services-help/)
- [UKIM Awarded Place on ESPO Framework for Occupational Health and Employee Assistance Programme Services.](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/ukim-awarded-place-on-espo-framework-for-occupational-health-and-employee-assistance-programme-services/)
- [Enhancing Employee Retention and Recruitment: The Role of Occupational Health Services.](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/enhancing-employee-retention-and-recruitment/)
- [Respiratory Health in the Workplace: The Importance of Occupational Health Services](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/respiratory-health-in-the-workplace-the-importance-of-occupational-health-services/)
- [What are the legal requirements and regulations related to Occupational Health and Safety?](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/what-are-the-legal-requirements-and-regulations-related-to-occupational-health-and-safety/)
- [How do Occupational Health services support employer duty of care?](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/how-do-occupational-health-services-support-employer-duty-of-care/)
- [How Investing in Occupational Health Services can lead to greater ROI ](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/how-investing-in-occupational-health-services-can-lead-to-greater-roi/)
- [Occupational Health Referrals for Employees and how to make them.](https://www.ukim-oh.com/news/latest-news/occupational-health-referrals-for-employees-and-how-to-make-them/)

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