HEALTH MATTERS : High Cost of Illness
Posted on: Thursday, 20 October 2005, 06:00 CDT
The Government has launched a drive to improve the health of the UK's workforce in a bid to cut down the 40 million sick days taken every year.
A free advice service is to be launched for smaller firms offering help on improving health and safety and on easing the return to work of employees off sick.
A director of occupational health will also be appointed as part of an attempt to raise awareness of the link between good health and good working practices.
Firms will be encouraged to urge their staff to keep fit and eat healthily and to offer more occupational health services.
Ministers said just 15 per cent of companies had occupational health services to help their employees.
Work and Pensions Secretary David Blunkett said he wanted work- related illness and accidents avoided in the first place, and to ensure that people who were ill or injured received fast treatment.
Work and Pensions Minister Lord Hunt said the 40million lost days were costing the economy pounds 12billion a year.
He said the fact that only 15 per cent of firms offered occupational health services was a "problem
Source: Birmingham Post; Birmingham (UK)
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