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1 Overview
1.1 [Company Name] is committed to protecting and promoting the health, safety, and wellbeing of all employees. This Occupational Health Policy outlines our approach to preventing work-related ill health, supporting employees with health conditions, and ensuring a safe and sustainable working environment.
1.2 We recognise that health is both physical and mental, and that effective occupational health support plays a key role in maintaining attendance, performance, and workplace safety.
2 Scope
2.1 This policy applies to all employees, contractors, agency workers, visitors, and anyone affected by our operations.
2.2 It covers all aspects of occupational health, including risk assessment, health surveillance, workplace adjustments, and access to occupational health services.
3 General Principles
3.1 Prevention
3.1.1 We aim to prevent work-related ill health by identifying hazards early and implementing effective control measures.
3.2 Promotion
3.2.1 We actively promote physical and mental wellbeing through preventative initiatives, early intervention, and access to occupational health support services.
3.3 Compliance
3.3.1 We comply with all relevant health and safety legislation and recognised best practice standards, reviewing our approach regularly.
3.4 Support
We recognise that employees may require support due to health conditions and are committed to providing reasonable adjustments
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This Occupational Health Policy sets out how the organisation supports employee health, safety, and wellbeing through prevention, early intervention, and access to specialist occupational health services.
It covers both physical and mental health, including fatigue, stress, workplace exposure risks, and long-term health conditions, alongside risk assessment and workplace adjustments.
The policy promotes a proactive approach to managing health at work, ensuring employees are supported to remain safe, productive, and engaged throughout their employment.
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Yes. This template has been designed for organisations of all sizes, including small businesses, charities and growing employers. It follows UK employment law best practice and can be adapted to suit your organisation.
Our templates are developed with UK employment legislation, Acas guidance and HR best practice in mind and are reviewed and updated as relevant requirements change. However, every employment situation is different, so the template should be adapted to the circumstances and checked against the employee's contract and your organisation's procedures before use.
Yes, we highlight the areas of the document that you need to update with your own details, and where you need to make decisions to suit your situation. This saves you time and ensures that you meet best practice.
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AI can produce a document quickly, but effective HR documentation needs to be more than well-written words. It needs to reflect relevant UK employment law, HR best practice, practical considerations and the circumstances in which it will be used. These resources have been professionally developed around that wider HR context, drawing on extensive practical experience, rather than simply generating a generic document from a prompt.
The policy gave us a clear framework to work from. It helped us tighten up a process that had previously been a little too dependent on individual judgement. It gave us a consistent position to work from when managers asked questions.
It was straightforward to explain to managers who were not HR specialists. It was easier to review because the main principles were clearly set out. It helped us make the position much clearer internally.
How this content is developed and reviewed
The Occupational Health policy template is developed using a practical HR methodology that considers current UK employment legislation, ACAS guidance, CIPD good practice and the real-world HR process it supports. Templates and supporting information are regularly reviewed and updated, with additional reviews triggered by significant changes to legislation, guidance or established HR practice, helping ensure each document remains practical, relevant and suitable for UK employers.
Darryl Horn, Chartered HR Director
Darryl is a Chartered HR professional with over 25 years' experience in senior HR and employee relations roles.
He has extensive practical experience of managing absence and attendance HR processes and founded hrdocbox to provide businesses with practical, professionally developed HR resources grounded in UK employment law and best practice.
HRDocBox has been creating practical UK HR documents since 2009.
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