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Occupational Health Services
- Occupational Health Services
SEQOHS-certified support to manage workforce liability, reduce absence costs and meet your statutory health and safety duties.
We deliver Occupational Health services nationally through clinics, onsite visits, and secure digital consultations. Every service operates to SEQOHS standards, which means consistent clinical governance and regulatory defensibility across your entire workforce.
The focus is always on measurable outcomes. Reduced absence duration. Faster return-to-work timelines. Fewer tribunal risks. Our clinicians think commercially because that’s what HR teams and boards actually need from an OH provider.
Service at a glance:
- Service: National Occupational Health support, SEQOHS certified.
- Focus: Managing compliance, reducing absence liability, and meeting statutory safety duties.
- Delivery: Clinics, onsite mobile units or secure video consultations.
- Outcome: Measurable reduction in sickness costs and legal exposure.
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Our Occupational Health Services
Strategic health management aligned to your business goals
Design your Occupational Health services as a management tool. Prevent work-related ill health and access the clear, commercial medical advice needed to manage employment contracts safely.
Deliver tailored support aligned to workforce risk and specific business needs.
Our range of Occupational Health risk management services includes:
How Occupational Health supports your business
Occupational Health isn’t a cost centre when it’s done right. It’s a risk management function that pays for itself through:
- Legislative compliance: Meeting your duties under the Health & Safety at Work Act 1974 and the Equality Act 2010.
- Smarter recruitment: Validating that candidates can actually do the job before they start.
- Proactive absence management: Using data and early intervention to stop short-term issues becoming long-term problems.
- Retention: Protecting the investment you’ve made in training by keeping experienced staff capable and engaged.
- Board-level governance: Giving senior leadership the medical intelligence they need to make strategic workforce decisions.
Our OH Services Include
- Management Referrals (OH Assessments): Independent fitness-for-work reports covering capability, absence prognosis, First Day Absence Management and Equality Act 2010 obligations.
- Health Surveillance: Audiometry, spirometry, HAVS and skin surveillance meeting COSHH, Noise at Work and Vibration at Work regulations.
- Pre-Placement Health Screening: Three tiers of new-starter assessment (online digital, clinical review and face-to-face), all Section 60 compliant.
- Onsite Occupational Health: Mobile units and onsite nurse clinics delivering surveillance and medicals at your premises with minimal disruption.
- Vocational Medical Assessments: HGV/LGV/PCV driver medicals, asbestos medicals, crane operator, confined space and working at heights assessments.
- Strategic Medical Advice: Outsourced CMO and corporate health governance for boards and senior leadership teams.
- Drug & Alcohol Testing: Pre-employment, random, for-cause and post-incident screening with full chain-of-custody compliance and policy support.
- Physiotherapy & MSK Services: Fast-track musculoskeletal referrals to reduce absence duration. Clinically integrated with your OH and absence management programme.
- DSE & Workstation Assessments: Display Screen Equipment assessments for office, home and hybrid workers meeting the 1992 Regulations.
What makes us different from other providers
We’re not just an OH provider. We’re the only UK provider delivering SEQOHS-certified Occupational Health, an EAPA-accredited Employee Assistance Programme and 24/7 Remote Medical Services under one clinical governance framework.
That matters because health issues don’t sit in neat categories. An absence referral might uncover a mental health condition that’s better supported through the EAP. An employee returning from long-term sickness might need phased adjustments managed by OH alongside wellbeing support from the Employee Assistance Programme. Our integrated model means nothing falls between the cracks.
Every clinician is directly employed by MCL Medics and works within our governance framework. You’re not being passed to an associate network where quality varies by postcode. That’s a deliberate decision. It’s how we’ve maintained 96% client retention over 25 years.
FAQs
We help employers manage the relationship between work and health. In practice, that covers assessing fitness for specific roles, monitoring health where regulations require it, advising on adjustments under the Equality Act, and providing the medical evidence HR teams need to make defensible decisions about capability, absence, and return to work.
A GP treats the patient. Occupational health assesses whether someone can fulfil a specific employment contract and provides employer-focused recommendations. GP fit notes rarely contain the functional detail HR teams require. They’ll tell you someone is unfit for work. They will not tell you what they can still do, how long the absence is likely to last, or whether the Equality Act applies.
SEQOHS is the quality standard for OH services in the UK. It’s not legally required, but it demonstrates your provider operates to independently audited clinical governance standards. Procurement teams, regulators, and tribunal panels all recognise it as the benchmark. If you’re spending budget on OH, you should be getting SEQOHS-quality output.
Government, healthcare, facilities management, construction, manufacturing, transport, professional services, and energy. We’ve worked in high-regulation, complex environments for over 25 years and our model scales from 200-person SMEs to multi-site national contracts.
For a straightforward programme, we can be operational within two to four weeks. Complex, multi-site programmes typically take four to eight weeks including clinical protocol design and system integration.
Both. If you need a single Management Referral, a one-off health surveillance session or a pre-placement screen for one candidate, we can help without any contract commitment. Many clients start with a one-off service and move to a retained arrangement once they’ve experienced the quality.
Example of Tailored OH Delivery
Occupational Health Management Referrals Access Occupational Health assessments that deliver clear, evidence-based management reports. Reports are designed to support regulatory compliance, robust absence management, and safe, sustainable returns to work.
- Rapid Access: Book face-to-face, secure video, or telephone appointments to suit business urgency.
- Digital Workflow: Use a fully end-to-end digital management referral process for speed and auditability.
- National Reach: Ensure Occupational Health coverage for multi-site operations.
- Cost Containment: Significantly reduce sickness absence costs through early intervention.
- Direct Access: HR and line managers can trigger referrals and access reports directly.
- Admin Managed: The full booking process is managed for you, liaising directly with employees to save HR time.
Occupational Health Outcomes and Impact
We measure our success by your commercial improvements:
Average reduction in sickness absence duration following intervention.
Employees rated our service with an excellent Net Promoter Score (NPS).
Management referral assessments completed within 48 hours.
Why MCL
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WHO WE WORK WITH
Just starting on your employee health and wellbeing journey?
Download our free guide for staff which includes:
- 7 steps to mindfulness for a better work environment.
- Anxiety management and dealing with panic attacks
- Mindfulness meditation
- Workstation setup
- Workstation exercises
An Occupational Health Service will also provide educational and training programs to raise awareness of occupational health issues within the organisation and among the employees. These may include stress management and manual handling, among other topics relevant to your industry.
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Last updated: April 2026