Health Surveillance

Health surveillance exists to catch harm early enough to prevent it. When a result comes back abnormal, the finding is rarely just about the individual. It is about whether your controls are working, in that area, on that process, for everyone else standing near it.

That is the part a tick-box programme misses. A provider who hands you a spreadsheet of pass and fail has given you data, not advice.

OccuMed delivers the full range of statutory surveillance under COSHH and the noise and vibration regulations, then tells you what the results actually mean for your risk assessment, not just whether one employee has passed or failed on the day.

"Statutory" has a specific meaning here. If your risk assessment identifies exposure to noise, hand-arm vibration, dust, fumes, or substances covered by COSHH, the law does not leave surveillance as a nice-to-have. The Control of Noise at Work Regulations 2005 and the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations 2005 are the two most common triggers we see, alongside COSHH 2002 for dust and chemical exposure — where the exposure exists, the duty exists with it.

None of this works as a one-off. A programme is only as good as its schedule, and the schedule has to come from what your workforce is actually exposed to — who needs audiometry and how often, whose HAVS tier means quarterly rather than annual review. OccuMed builds that schedule from your risk assessment and manages every result, recall date and record centrally through the OccuMed portal (Orchid Live).

Lichfield is home, not just a postcode on the letterhead. Being based here means our clinical team already knows the rhythm of West Midlands manufacturing and engineering sites — shift patterns, changeover windows, how much time a factory floor can actually spare per employee. Clients across Staffordshire, Birmingham, Walsall, Wolverhampton and Tamworth get a provider who can turn a clinic around quickly, because the team isn't travelling in from three hours away to do it.

London works differently, and we've built dedicated capacity for it. Office-based clients need a handful of management referrals a year and the occasional fitness-for-work medical; construction and logistics clients running sites across the M25 corridor need multi-site health surveillance on a schedule. OccuMed runs both, with the same clinician-led standard we apply everywhere else — and coordinates multi-site programmes for organisations with teams split across Lichfield, London and beyond.

Every result is reviewed by a qualified clinician before it reaches you, not just checked against a pass/fail line. When something does need action — an abnormal audiometry result, a HAVS tier change — it's routed straight into Management Referral or Fitness For Work, so you get a documented next step rather than a flagged result with nowhere to go.

New starters exposed to noise, vibration, dust or COSHH substances need a baseline result before their exposure begins, not six months into the job once a pattern is already established. OccuMed builds baseline testing into new starter onboarding wherever surveillance applies.

Whether you already know which surveillance categories apply to your workforce, or you're starting from a risk assessment that needs a second look, that's a normal starting point — call 01922 254020, email enquiries@occumed.co.uk, or use the enquiry form, and tell us where your sites are and what your workforce is exposed to. We'll come back with a programme and a schedule, not just a price list.