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Health and Work Survey

CITB NI has been asked to help promote a survey of the construction industry that aims to help employers and the workforce with sickness & absence issues.  This is an important issue for the industry because:
 

• Tackling sickness absence, and the reasons for it, at an early stage has enormous benefits to employers and employees alike, but the right advice and support can be hard to find. 

 

• CITB NI has agreed to work with The Department for Communities (DFC) to determine if there is a need for a specific free health and work service aimed at small construction employers. 

 

• Direct access to such a service would help ensure that your employees can be seen by a dedicated specialist team of health professionals at an early stage, to agree a rehabilitation plan.

 

• This will have many benefits such as reducing sickness absence costs (time off work costs) by preventing health conditions from becoming worse, better availability of staff, and reducing the need to recruit and train new staff.

 

• Examples of conditions the proposed service could help advice on include: stress, anxiety, panic attacks, depression, musculoskeletal and back problems, asthma, blood pressure, heart & circulatory problems etc.  Another great benefit of the service is that employees can be supported whilst in work.

Your feedback is therefore vitally important in determining if a service would be of use to your organisation and to build a case.  Your views and comments are being asked for so that a service that meets your needs can be developed. 
 
Don’t miss the opportunity to shape what could be a useful service to you and your employees.
 
Please take 5 minutes to complete the questionnaire and return by the 19^th June
 
The questionnaire can be accessed here