Acorn Occupational Health http://blog.acornoh.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 06 May 2008 13:16:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en Work for one of the best Occupational Health Service Providers in the UK http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/come-and-work-for-the-best-occuaptional-health-service-provider-in-the-uk/ http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/come-and-work-for-the-best-occuaptional-health-service-provider-in-the-uk/#comments Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:44:22 +0000 admin http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/come-and-work-for-the-best-occuaptional-health-service-provider-in-the-uk/ We are always looking to recruit Occupational Health Advisors or Registered General Nurses with Occupational Health experience on a full or part-time basis. If you are interested please forward your CV to us or just give us a call.

Also if you are an Occupational Health Physician please contact us with a copy of your CV as we have clients throughout the UK and local OHPs are required.

]]> http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/come-and-work-for-the-best-occuaptional-health-service-provider-in-the-uk/feed/ Flu Vaccines at work http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/flu-vaccines-at-work/ http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/flu-vaccines-at-work/#comments Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:00:57 +0000 admin http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/flu-vaccines-at-work/ Acorn is now taking orders for Flu Vaccines. The benefits of vaccinating healthy working adults include reduced sickness absence and a corresponding increase in productivity. Vaccination of healthy working adults is an intervention with favourable cost-effectiveness.

If the incidence of influenza in the community is 6 percent, the expected probability of an employee being absent from work is reduced from 5.7 percent to 1.8 percent (with 100 percent employee vaccination), with a reduction in absenteeism due to an influenza outbreak of 220 days per 1,000 employees.

Please call 0870 165 0496 to order your flu vaccines.

]]> http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/flu-vaccines-at-work/feed/ New limit on respirable Crystalline Silica in the workplace http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/new-limit-on-respirable-crystalline-silica-in-the-workplace/ http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/new-limit-on-respirable-crystalline-silica-in-the-workplace/#comments Fri, 01 Sep 2006 10:25:45 +0000 admin http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/new-limit-on-respirable-crystalline-silica-in-the-workplace/ This applies to employers in the foundry, ceramics, brick manufacture, heavy clay, quarry, industrial minerals, construction and stonemasonry industries, and any other producer or user of silica flour whose employees could be exposed to respirable crystalline silica dust.

From 1 October 2006, a revised workplace exposure limit (WEL) for respirable crystalline silica (RCS) will reduce the existing limit.

The new WEL value for RCS will be 0.1 milligrams of RCS per cubic metre of air averaged over an eight-hour period (expressed as 0.1 mg.m-3).

If the new limit is exceeded the HSE recommend the following:

• Respiratory questionnaire
• Spirometry
• Chest X-ray every 5 years for 20 years of working life & then every 3 years.
• Observe sickness trends of chest illnesses over 12 month periods.

]]> http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/new-limit-on-respirable-crystalline-silica-in-the-workplace/feed/ New Legislation in Relation to Occupational Health http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/new-legislation-relation-to-occuaptional-health/ http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/new-legislation-relation-to-occuaptional-health/#comments Sat, 25 Jun 2005 14:46:31 +0000 admin http://blog.acornoh.co.uk/new-legislation-relation-to-occuaptional-health/ Keeping you updated with new legislation:

• The Working at Height Regulations 2005

• Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005

• New Noise at Work Regulations Apr 2006

If you think or know that any of this new legislation is going to effect your business then call us and we can explain the details.

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