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Occupational Health Assessments can provide an employer with the knowledge that employees are fit, healthy and safe to be in the workplace.

It is also important to consider how work and the work environment can impact on workers’ health, both physical and mental.

Isocyanates are one of the leading causes of occupational asthma in the UK. As respiratory sensitisers, exposures to isocyanates should be kept as low as reasonably practicable and this often requires the use of respiratory protective equipment (RPE).

Biological monitoring can be used to indicate how much of a chemical has entered your body. It involves measuring the chemical you are exposed to at work (or what it breaks down into) in a sample of your breath, urine or blood.

Drug and Alcohol testing is important particularly in certain jobs (for example employees who make safety-critical decisions like drivers, pilots and some machinery operators). In jobs like these the misuse of drugs or alcohol could have disastrous effects for the employee, colleagues, members of the public and the environment.

Neurodiversity simply refers to the different ways in which someone's brain processes information.

In the UK, 15-20% of the population is neurodivergent. This equates to 13 million people, including 700,000 people with autism spectrum condition and two million people with dyslexia.