Workplace Occupational Health Services
Joyworkz offer valuable onsite Workplace Health Services (for both corporate health and small business), to enhance health, safety and productivity and help your company meet its duties under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
The following services are offered for businesses within the Auckland business area:
1. Workplace Health Checks
Workplace health checks engage workers to think about their health risks and take action. A health check up is a bit like a WOF but for the Body – helping spot issues before they become problems. A low cost service, it provides a great benefit to both employees and business by reducing sickness and saving lives.
Our Workplace Health checks include the following:
- Blood pressure readings
- Blood sugar readings
- Cholesterol levels
- Body mass index
- Smoking cessation advice
- Assessment of risk factors
- Lifestyle discussion
The checks provide your employees with immediate results that identify risk. Your company will also receive a statistical report (if booking 30 or more staff), giving you an overall picture of the health of your workforce.
This is an investment, which will see reduced sickness absence and improved productivity. Absence costs New Zealand businesses nearly $1 billion a year. Collecting health check data is a great starting point for your company to understand where health risks exist. You are then able to design a wellness programme to target the identified risks, motivate staff, engage them, and ultimately help reduce absence.
2. Workplace Hearing Tests
Hearing tests are required by the Department of Labour for employees working in noise levels in excess of 85dBA over an eight hour period. (A rule of thumb for determining noise levels above 85dBA is if you have to shout to hold a conversation with someone who is about one metre away from you).
Our hearing test can help you:
- Comply with the Approved Code of Practice for the Management of Noise levels in the Workplace
- Identify employees at risk from hazardous noise in the workplace
- Take necessary action with regard to ear protection to avoid hearing problems
- Comply with the law – Refer AS/NZS 1269.4:2014
Hearing tests include:
- Assessment of the employees past and present noise history (includes recreational)
- A physical assessment of the ear to look for medical cause
- Full audiometry testing over eight frequencies in both ears
- Education on the wearing of the correct hearing protection
- Education on responsibility to protect
3. Workplace Lung Function/Spirometry Tests
We provide lung function tests (spirometry test) for employees who are exposed to contaminants in the air that could affect lung function. This includes people who either work with chemicals or who are exposed to other contaminants in the air such as dusts and fumes. Examples of harmful substances include; Isocyanates, dusts, silicosis and asbestos.
Our lung function tests help you:
- Comply with documents such as the ‘Approved Code of Practice for the Safe Use of Isocyanates’ and ‘Workplace Exposure Standards’.
- Identify employees at risk from hazardous air contaminants in the workplace.
- Take action with regard to respiratory protection.
The test includes:
- Assessment of the employees past and present air contaminant history (includes recreational)
- Full diagnostic Spirometry (three separate blows into the lung function machine)
- Explanation of the results to the employee
- Education on the wearing of respiratory protection
- Education on responsibility to protect
4. Workplace Vision Tests
Workplace vision testing is available for employees who are exposed to visual hazards, including: hazardous substances, heavy VDU/Computer usage or where vehicle operation is prevalent.
Our Vision Testing can help you:
- Be regarded as a responsible employer who looks after their staff
- Improve staff productivity by reducing fatigue and headaches
- Reducing injury potential to staff and property
- Detect vision problems before they have significant health impacts
The test includes:
- Visual acuity (staff’s ability to see usually whilst wearing their prescription eyewear) for distance and close up
- Visual test for peripheral vision
- Ocular health (age related macular degeneration test)
- Colour vision
Health Services Feedback
Thanks so much [for the reports]…[The health testing] all went very well and Kerry [your Occupational Health Nurse] is a pleasure. Angie de Silva, Administration Manager, Kiwi Maintenance Group Ltd
Thank you for the health testing. Much appreciated. I had glowing reports about Kerry and the health checks were well received. Charlotte Hobson, Marketing Manager, Liquidstone Ltd
As a Health and Safety manager, I found your nurse to be very professional, reliable, honest and efficient. She would research material to ensure that the health documentation remained current and relevant to the organisation, then develop presentation in a timely and professional manner. Mike Wilson, Human Resources, Watercare Services Limited, Auckland
I had some very good feedback from staff on their health check experience. Most people thought it was very beneficial for them and we would not hesitate to recommend JoyWorkz to other businesses. We all thought your nurse was wonderful and she was kind and easy to deal with. Danielle Pink, Customer Relationship Specialist, Kotahi
We recently had our staff undergo health testing through you and found it to be a great service. Angie de Silva, Administration Manager, Kiwi Maintenance Group Ltd
Health and Safety Compliance
The Health and Safety at Work Act (2015) requires the PCBU (Person Conducting a Business or Undertaking) to take responsibility for the health and safety of anyone working for them. They are required, so far as is reasonably practicable, to provide and maintain a work environment that is without risks to health and safety. They are also required to provide adequate facilities at work and monitor the health of workers and the conditions at the workplace to prevent illness or injury. Providing health testing for staff, helps a business to meet these obligations. Hearing, lung-function and vision testing also ensures an employer meets specific legislative obligations related to relevant Codes of Practice.
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