Occupational health provision in UK universities

Venables, K M; Allender, Steven

doi:10.1093/occmed/kql160

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“…Focus group participants reported that the quality of OHS delivery was affected by human resources, including lack of trained occupational physicians and occupational health nurses, the declining competence of practitioners, and the understaffing of OH facilities with unrealistic workloads for existing practitioners. These concerns mirrored those described by Venables and Allender (2008) in an environment, similar to South Africa, with no legal obligation to offer comprehensive OHS. Understaffing of OHS is believed to be the consequence of both service providers and employers prioritizing commercial profit over care quality.…”

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“Mindless Medicals”

Michell¹,

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2016

Workplace Health Saf

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This article explores stakeholders' perceptions of the quality of occupational health service (OHS) delivery in South Africa. Using a purposive sampling technique, 11 focus group discussions (FGDs) were conducted in three provinces. Focus group participants ( n = 69) were recruited through professional organizations of occupational physicians and occupational health nurses as well as employer representatives of major industries in South Africa. Transcriptions of FGDs were analyzed using thematic content analysis. South Africa has diverse models of OHS delivery with varying quality. Focus group participants criticized the outsourced model of service delivery and the excessive focus on physical examinations to achieve legal compliance. These problems are exacerbated by a perceived lack of employer emphasis on occupational health, insufficient human and financial resources, and lack of specific quality of care standards for occupational health. Improvement in the quality of OHS delivery is essential to realize South Africa's quest for universal health coverage.

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“Mindless Medicals”

Michell¹,

Rispel

2016

Workplace Health Saf

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“…Nine occupational physicians independently assigned each group an OH-needs score from 5 (highest) to 1 (lowest); groups whose median was 5 were called 'high': medicine, dentistry, veterinary science and nursing. OH service factors were examined in a univariate analysis using information from telephone and mailed surveys described elsewhere [2]. Analysis used SPSS 13.0 and STATA 8.…”

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“…Occupational health (OH) was not included in the UK National Health Service (NHS) at its inception in 1948 and UK legislation does not prescribe the professional OH advice and services employers should fund. Universities have complex OH needs [1] but low OH staffing and considerable variation: the range of full-time equivalents (FTE) for university OH nurses was 0-7.9 and for doctors 0-3.25 [2]. To explore the investment behaviour of employers, we carried out a secondary analysis within our 2002-04 survey of all 117 publicly funded UK universities [2].…”

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“…Universities have complex OH needs [1] but low OH staffing and considerable variation: the range of full-time equivalents (FTE) for university OH nurses was 0-7.9 and for doctors 0-3.25 [2]. To explore the investment behaviour of employers, we carried out a secondary analysis within our 2002-04 survey of all 117 publicly funded UK universities [2].…”

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What determines the size of occupational health services in UK universities?

Venables

Allender

2007

Occupational Medicine

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“…Despite the complexity and risks, there has been little discussion of occupational health needs within the University area (Venables & Allender, 2007;Gong, 2019).…”

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Development of Safety Plan Building Based on Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Campus Area of UI Depok to Reduce Work Accident

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Herzanita

Latief

2021

JICP

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There is very little discussion about the needs of occupational health within the University area. In fact, the University is a place where interaction occurs not only for lecturers and students, but also employees, contractors and other visitors with very varied backgrounds and cultures. The lack of application of OHSMS in the construction sector in the University area causes a high number of work accidents. Making a safety plan at the initiation stage can reduce and prevent potential hazards that will occur. One of the methods can be used to reduce work accidents is by developing a safety plan using WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). This study aims to develop a WBS-based construction occupational safety and health plan for structural and architectural work buildings. This study develops a safety plan based on Regulation of Minister of PUPR No. 21 of 2019. This study uses literature study techniques for risk identification and questionnaires validation by experts with a minimum of 5 years experiences in OHS construction project. The result of this study is identification of hazards, impacts, prevention, OHS objective and programs. The results will be used for the development of a safety plan, intending to improve occupational safety and health performance and reduce occupational accidents in construction projects.

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Occupational health provision in UK universities

Abstract: It is unclear if the occupational health provision to universities is proportional to their needs. The wide variation suggests that some universities may have less adequate services than others.

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What determines the size of occupational health services in UK universities?

Development of Safety Plan Building Based on Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Campus Area of UI Depok to Reduce Work Accident

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