Client
- Maintenance Sector – privatised ex local authority
- 700 staff – mostly older workforce
- In-house OH provider – full time nurse with part time doctor
- OH policy – reactive rather than proactive
- High Absence – 13% – poor absence management between HR and line managers
- Surveillance records out of date
- High claims on pension fund
- New style OH introduced – service outsource
Result
- Record keeping improved – Surveillance records updated
- Absence reduced to – 8%, 6.5% 4% over 3 years
- No more claims on pension fund
- Reduced OH input
- Saving on OH costs
- Savings quantified at £1,200,000 (63 more staff per day at work* £75/day* 230 working days = £1,087,000 plus savings on pension cost = £1,200,000)
- Expenditure £60,000