Healthier People. Safer Workplaces. Stronger Organisations.
Supporting Workforce Health and Wellbeing Worldwide
Healthy employees are essential to safe, productive, and resilient organisations. HSE HELP Ltd supports organisations worldwide in identifying occupational health risks, improving workplace wellbeing, and developing practical systems that protect physical and psychological health.
Working with appropriately qualified professionals and specialist occupational health providers where required, we tailor our support to your workforce, industry, operating environment, and applicable local requirements.
Why Occupational Health and Wellbeing Matter
Protecting People throughout Their Working Lives
Occupational health is about understanding how work can affect people’s health—and how an individual’s health may affect their ability to work safely. Effective occupational health and wellbeing arrangements can help your organisation:
- Prevent work-related ill health: Identify and control exposure to physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic, and psychological hazards.
- Support employee wellbeing: Create a working environment that promotes physical and mental wellbeing.
- Manage absence effectively: Develop fair, consistent, and supportive absence-management arrangements.
- Improve productivity: Reduce disruption caused by ill health, fatigue, discomfort, and avoidable absence.
- Retain valuable employees: Support people to remain in work or return safely following illness or injury.
- Meet relevant obligations: Address applicable workplace health, equality, accessibility, and employment requirements.
- Strengthen workforce engagement: Demonstrate that employee health, dignity, and wellbeing are organisational priorities.
- Build organisational resilience: Develop a healthier, more engaged, and sustainable workforce.
Our Approach to Occupational Health and Wellbeing
Understanding Risks and Developing Practical Solutions
We take a systematic and proportionate approach that connects occupational health with your wider HSE management arrangements.
1. Workplace Health-Risk Assessment
We assess the activities, environments, and exposures that could affect employee health. This may include noise, vibration, hazardous substances, manual handling, repetitive tasks, workplace ergonomics, fatigue, stress, and biological hazards.
2. Occupational Health Needs Analysis
We review your workforce profile, operational risks, absence patterns, existing controls, and legal or contractual requirements. This helps determine the occupational health services and interventions your organisation may need.
3. Health-Risk Control
Following the hierarchy of control, we help develop practical measures to eliminate or reduce workplace health risks. Recommendations may include changes to equipment, materials, workplace design, working patterns, procedures, training, or supervision.
4. Health-Surveillance Arrangements
Where risk assessment or applicable local requirements indicate that health surveillance may be necessary, we can help establish an appropriate programme with a competent occupational health provider.
Health surveillance may be relevant to exposure involving:
- Hazardous substances
- Noise
- Hand-arm vibration
- Respiratory sensitisers
- Skin sensitisers
- Biological agents
- Ionising radiation
- Other identified occupational health hazards
Clinical assessments and medical decisions must be undertaken by appropriately qualified healthcare professionals.
5. Wellbeing Programme Development
We help organisations create structured, inclusive wellbeing programmes that reflect the needs of their employees and business. These may address mental health, fatigue, physical activity, healthy working practices, financial wellbeing, social connection, and work-life balance.
6. Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
We help establish appropriate indicators to evaluate occupational health and wellbeing performance. This may include absence trends, employee feedback, workplace assessment findings, health-surveillance outcomes at an anonymised organisational level, and completion of corrective actions.
Our Occupational Health Services
Protecting Health Across Every Working Environment
Our occupational health and workplace risk-management support can include:
- Occupational health needs assessments
- Workplace health-risk assessments
- Occupational hygiene coordination
- Health-surveillance programme development
- Noise and vibration risk-management support
- Hazardous-substance exposure reviews
- Respiratory and skin-health risk assessments
- Workplace ergonomics assessments
- Display screen equipment assessments
- Manual-handling and musculoskeletal risk reviews
- Fatigue risk management
- Shift-work and working-hours reviews
- Fitness-for-task process development
- Return-to-work planning and risk assessment
- Workplace adjustment recommendations
- New and expectant parent risk assessments
- Young-person and vulnerable-worker assessments
- Lone-working health and wellbeing reviews
- Sickness-absence policy development
- Referral-process and case-management guidance
- Occupational health policy and procedure development
- Health-promotion campaigns
- Employee wellbeing strategies
- Management training and awareness programmes
Mental Health and Psychosocial Risk
Creating a Supportive and Psychologically Healthy Workplace
Psychological health is an important part of occupational health and safety. Poorly managed workloads, unclear responsibilities, inadequate support, workplace conflict, bullying, harassment, traumatic events, remote working, and organisational change can affect employee wellbeing and performance.
We help organisations identify and manage psychosocial risks by supporting:
- Workplace stress risk assessments
- Psychosocial hazard identification
- Mental health and wellbeing policies
- Manager awareness and confidence
- Workload and role-design reviews
- Bullying and harassment prevention arrangements
- Employee consultation and engagement
- Support following distressing or traumatic incidents
- Remote and hybrid worker wellbeing
- Change-management risk reviews
- Signposting to appropriate professional support
- Wellbeing action plans
- Mental health awareness programmes
- Organisational wellbeing surveys
Our approach focuses on addressing workplace causes and strengthening organisational controls—not placing responsibility solely on individual employees.
Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Health
Designing Work Around People
Poorly designed tasks, workstations, tools, and working environments can contribute to discomfort, fatigue, reduced performance, and musculoskeletal disorders. We assess how people interact with their work and recommend practical improvements.
Our support may include:
- Office and home-workstation assessments
- Display screen equipment reviews
- Manual-handling assessments
- Repetitive-task analysis
- Workplace and equipment design reviews
- Posture and movement assessments
- Task rotation recommendations
- Ergonomic equipment guidance
- Manual-handling training
- Follow-up reviews to verify improvements
Absence, Rehabilitation and Return to Work
Supporting a Safe and Sustainable Return
Managing an employee’s return following illness or injury requires sensitivity, consistency, and appropriate professional input. We help organisations develop practical processes that support recovery while managing workplace risks.
Support may include:
- Return-to-work policies and procedures
- Individual workplace risk assessments
- Phased-return planning
- Temporary or permanent workplace adjustments
- Role and task reviews
- Communication between relevant parties
- Referral pathways to occupational health professionals
- Rehabilitation and case-management frameworks
- Review and monitoring arrangements
- Guidance for managers and supervisors
Recommendations should be informed by appropriate occupational health or medical advice when an employee’s health condition requires clinical assessment.
Wellbeing Strategy and Workforce Engagement
Building a Culture Where People Can Thrive
Effective wellbeing programmes should be based on evidence and aligned with real workforce needs. We help organisations move beyond isolated initiatives by developing coordinated strategies that support long-term improvement.
A wellbeing strategy may include:
- Leadership commitment and accountability
- Employee consultation
- Clear objectives and priorities
- Physical and psychological health initiatives
- Accessible support and referral pathways
- Inclusive workplace practices
- Manager training
- Communication and awareness campaigns
- Wellbeing champions or employee networks
- Monitoring, evaluation, and continuous improvement
Industry-Specific Occupational Health Support
Adaptable Solutions for Diverse Workforces
Our approach can be tailored to organisations across different industries and international locations.
Construction and Engineering
- Noise and vibration exposure
- Hazardous dust and substances
- Manual handling and musculoskeletal risks
- Fatigue and working-hours management
- Outdoor working and temperature exposure
- Safety-critical work considerations
Health and Social Care
- Moving and handling
- Infection and biological hazards
- Workplace violence and aggression
- Shift work and fatigue
- Emotional demands and burnout risks
- Staff wellbeing and psychological support arrangements
Performing Arts, Entertainment and Live Events
- Noise exposure
- Fatigue and irregular working hours
- Manual handling and equipment movement
- Performer and crew wellbeing
- Touring and travel demands
- Psychosocial pressures and performance-related stress
Offices and Remote Workplaces
- Display screen equipment
- Sedentary working
- Home-working arrangements
- Isolation and remote-worker wellbeing
- Workload and workplace stress
- Ergonomic workstation design
We can also support manufacturing, logistics, warehousing, retail, hospitality, education, technology, utilities, public services, and other working environments.
Why Choose HSE HELP?
Practical Support with International Reach
- Worldwide capability: Support for organisations operating across different countries and regions.
- Qualified professionals: Access to appropriately experienced HSE professionals and specialist occupational health providers where required.
- Integrated approach: Occupational health is connected to risk management, policies, training, incident management, and wider HSE systems.
- Tailored solutions: Services are adapted to your organisation, workforce, hazards, and operational priorities.
- Preventive focus: We help address workplace causes before they result in long-term ill health or absence.
- Practical recommendations: Our guidance is realistic, proportionate, and designed for implementation.
- Respect and confidentiality: We recognise the sensitivity of health information and the importance of appropriate data protection.
- Continuous improvement: We help you monitor performance and strengthen your arrangements over time.
Build a Healthier and More Resilient Workforce
Protect Health. Promote Wellbeing. Improve Performance.
Whether you require a workplace health-risk assessment, an occupational health framework, a wellbeing strategy, or support with a specific workforce concern, HSE HELP Ltd can provide practical assistance tailored to your organisation.
Important:
HSE HELP Ltd provides occupational health and HSE consultancy support. Clinical assessments, diagnosis, treatment, health surveillance, and medical fitness decisions must be completed by appropriately qualified healthcare professionals. Requirements vary by jurisdiction, and our services will be aligned with the applicable local framework.