Choose the right approach for you
Every company has different compliance challenges. Shape your ideal safety solution from three flexible options.
Opus Safety Partnership
Full-service consultancy and business risk management to improve safety standards for the long term.
Standalone compliance services
Targeted audits, surveys, assessments and staff training to keep you in line with current health and safety laws.
Friction-free software
Workflows, checklists, reporting and e-learning that streamline safety from start to finish.
Choose the right approach for you
Every company has different compliance challenges. Shape your ideal safety solution from three flexible options.
Full Health Surveillance
An occupational health assessment of a full fitness for work is to establish if that employee is fit to carry out their day to day duties within their job role.
Health Surveillance Medicals
A health surveillance system can highlight hazards in your workplace that are not properly being controlled. Opus help you to reduce these hazards.
Tailored Health Surveillance
Tailored surveillance not only ensures compliance with regulatory requirements but also promotes the overall well-being of employees, creating a safer work environment.
Glucose & Cholesterol
Manage diabetes and cholesterol proactively to ensure employee health and compliance with driving regulations.
Preventing Type 2 Diabetes
Lifestyle changes can significantly reduce the risk of Type 2 diabetes among employees.
DVLA Restrictions Awareness
Understanding DVLA's driving restrictions for diabetic employees on insulin.
Diabetes Impact on Work
Assessing diabetic employees to ensure their suitability for their job roles.
Cholesterol Health Significance
Monitoring cholesterol levels is vital to prevent heart disease and maintain health.
Why Testing is Important
Blood Glucose
As an employer promoting occupational health screening for diabetes is worthy and valuable as it is such a regular health condition in many employees and has a big impact in a working environment.
But additionally up to 58% of Type 2 diabetes cases can be prevented and delayed just by achieving a healthier lifestyle by making small changes.
Driving requirements
The DVLA has restrictions on diabetics who are on insulin stopping them from having Group II licences this is because it is due to an unexpected source of hypoglycaemia. This can also be accounted for in some cases train drivers and pilots.
Key points about diabetes:
- Diabetes is ever-increasing in employees.
- Diabetes is a chronic condition where problems may occur over a period of time.
- There are two types of diabetes – Type 1 and Type 2. They have various different causes and require controlling in various ways.
- Diabetic employees should be assessed as could be having an effect on their current job role or incapability of completing it.
- Risk assessments should be carried out in circumstances where safety may be compromised to all employees.
- There are 4.5 million people with diabetes in the UK, the majority of whom have Type 2 diabetes and are in work.
Cholesterol
Cholesterol is needed in our bodies as it helps to develop healthy cells however when cholesterol levels are too high this can increase our bodies to develop heart disease. As it can develop and increase fatty deposits in our blood vessels. These deposits can then increase and develop over a period of time creating difficulty for blood to flow through out arteries.
Key points about cholesterol:
- Cholesterol is fatty deposits in your blood and can lead to causes of concern.
- Healthy cholesterol levels vary depending on many different factors.
- Cholesterol levels less than 5.0mmol/l and low-density lipids 3.0mmol/l is thought to be a healthy level.
Learn more about our services
Schedule an informal chat with an Opus consultant to learn how we can improve employee health and safety across your business.
Your partner in compliance
'John and his team provide top-quality health and safety advice with practical support. Through wide industry experience, John delivers an integrated service that links with the needs of the client.'
Opus Safety Partnership
Everything you need for a safer workplace – in one end-to-end service. A customised compliance programme. Ongoing support. And a dedicated H&S expert, whenever you need them.
Business risk analysis
Pinpoint compliance issues and map out improvement measures.
Policies and processes
Review, upgrade and standardise safety documents and procedures.
Work-saving software
Action key H&S data and deliverables with one intuitive tool.
Strategic guidance
Maintain excellence with practical help and long-term risk prevention.
Secure, compliant and 100% confident
Our employee training programmes and one-off risk assessments, surveys and audits deliver peace of mind for your people – and a safer way forward for you.
Operate on the right side of regulations
Avoid penalties and exceed your legal requirements with expert-led risk assessments, audits and surveys that go beyond the bare minimum.