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The most relevant health and safety measure is that of prevention for employees:
The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1000 (MHSWR) states that employers must appoint ‘one or more competent persons’ to assist in undertaking relevant health and safety measures.
Nevertheless, the role of the risk assessment remains a key legal factor in attempting to ensure that the modern workplace promotes health.
This still applies to employees working overseas, which is where the Travel Clinic Limited can help. Appointments are available at short notice with flexibility with times and days.
If conferences or group meetings are planned abroad, we can visit the work place to vaccinate your staff, This service is particularly popular for vaccines requiring more than one dose, such as Tick-borne-encephalitis, needed in Northern Europe or Japanese encephalitis required in Asia, which would normally require three trips to the clinic. So saving many working hours.
Firms that frequently send employees abroad should consider vaccinating personnel in anticipation of overseas assignments. For example, a first yellow fever vaccination certificate is not valid for 10 days and many vaccines take several weeks to become effective.
Knowledgeable health professionals and doctors with extensive knowledge of living abroad perform medicals
Typical procedures such:
ECG
Full range of blood tests
Urine testing
Blood pressure
Eye tests
Height to weight ratio,
Body Mass Index and waist circumference
Lifestyle advice and cardiac risk assessments are available.
The role of The Travel Clinic when advising their clients is to ensure that they are as fit and prepared as possible for their assignment. This is accomplished by:
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Ensuring that overseas work will not exacerbate existing medical conditions
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Immunisation, malaria prophylaxis and treatment and advice on other preventative measure to protect against injury and illness
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Medical and first aid equipment
Gastric problems account for 45% of illness of which 60% are due to infective enteropathogens such as shigella and e.coli, which may be prevented by recent vaccines.
Specific advice is needed on day to day living in foreign countries where communicable diseases are rife
Contaminated food and water is a major cause of illness in business travellers although less so if eating and drinking is confined to first class hotels. Avoiding unsafe food and water can sometimes be difficult, when being entertained by enthusiastic hosts, unless a strategy is planned in advance!
It may be wise to always carry an anti-diarrhoeal preparation to make sure that you are able to attend important business meetings or to help you make long journeys without having to make frequent and inconvenient use of the toilet.
Unfamiliar surroundings, especially when combined with excessive alcohol consumption can lead to uncharacteristic behaviour including sexual risk taking. "Unsafe" sex, particularly with commercial sex workers, may pose serious infections risks including HIV.
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