A PROACTIVE, BUSINESS-FOCUSED ABSENCE MANAGEMENT SERVICE
CAN BENEFIT BOTH EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE
The benefits of a well-managed occupational health service
There is considerable evidence to demonstrate that a proactive, business-focused occupational health service can have a significant impact for clients: reduced absenteeism and the resultant improvements to productivity can lead to significant cost savings. When working in conjunction with an organisation's Employee Assistance Service, these benefits can be optimised further.
International SOS can tailor solutions to meet your business requirements and ensure effective support to HR teams and people managers in their approach to absence management, offering a comprehensive management of absence service, and allowing the control and reduction of sickness and injury absence. The service is designed to support our clients through the early evaluation of cases, providing clear reports and delivering an opinion on fitness to work.
How can we help?
First of all, by engaging with an organisation's management and staff, International SOS can help to promote occupational health services as a proactive solution, aimed at improving wellbeing and consequently reducing absence.
Training sessions with Medical Advisor
A close working partnership between your Medical Advisor and your HR Department is particularly important for the management of absence, to ensure that employees maintain contact with their managers, and that managers have the information they require to make appropriate resourcing decisions. We can arrange training on the absence management process with HR teams and other people managers.
Sickness Absence Advisory Services
International SOS has a large pool of Occupational Health Physicians, Nurses and Psychotherapists who have in-depth knowledge of a wide variety of working environments, including the associated physical and mental challenges to which your employees may be exposed. This knowledge and expertise ensures our clinicians are in the ideal position to advise on the creation or review of a Sickness Absence Policy and related management strategies. Using health data from our OH Hub clinical system, International SOS can tailor strategies and advice to your company based on its specific health needs.
Medical Advisory-led Case Management Process
International SOS can track all ongoing absence management cases within your company through our clinical system, providing you with a weekly progress report. To assist in the strategic management of ongoing cases, your dedicated Medical Advisor can meet with your HR teams on a monthly basis to provide a confidential update on each case and discuss appropriate next steps to support your employees in a successful return to work.
Case study
As an example, for one of the largest private companies in Aberdeen, International SOS helped reduce sickness absence of over 30 consecutive days from c. 200 to c. 30 in just over 2 years.
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Mental Health-Related Sickness Absence | Quarterly Analysis
Energy Voice Article - Sickness care matters (February 2022)
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WITH A SPOTLIGHT ON LONG COVID AND MENTAL HEALTH
ABSENCE MANAGEMENT
Were you aware that if an employee is absent from work for four to twelve weeks, there is between a 10% to 40% chance that they will be absent for a year? And for those signed off for between six and twelve months, there is a 90% chance that they will never return to any form or work in the foreseeable future.
During the pandemic, we have all been made very aware of the highly disruptive effect of sickness absence on the workforce and on organisations' ability to continue business as usual and maintain productivity. As we all hope we may be beginning to see the end of the worst of the pandemic, with the advent of vaccines and innovations in treatment, the consequences will remain with us for some time.
According to the Office of National Statistics, as of 2 January 2022, 1.3 million people in the UK were experiencing long Covid symptoms that lasted more than four weeks from the initial infection. 42% of these people were continuing to experience symptoms more than a year after first being infected. And 63% said their symptoms have reduced their ability to carry out daily activities.
And the effects are not only physical: 32% of all management referrals currently are for Mental Health issues - second only to musculoskeletal issues. Our Risk Outlook 2022 report showed that, after COVID-19, 36% of respondents globally expected Mental Health issues to be the greatest productivity disruptor in 2022 - this represents a four-fold increase since 2020.
PANELLISTS
Dr STUART SCOTT
Medical Director, Scotland
CAROLYN TAYLOR
Head of Mental Health, Resilience and Wellbeing
RITA DAYOUB
Health Consultant, EMEA
Host: DAVID ELLIS
General Manager, Scotland
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