Health and safety law 2019 (July 2019)

Chapter 10

Occupational health

[ch 10: page 198]

An occupational health scheme is a service which gives access to a range of professional advice and services to staff.

The European Union’s Framework Directive (EEC/89/391) requires that all workers have access to preventive occupational health services. However, the way this duty was transposed into UK law meant that, in practice, only a small minority of workers had access to comprehensive occupational health support at work. According to TUC figures, two million people are suffering from a work-related condition but only one in eight UK workers have access to an occupational health doctor.


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