Smaller employers may join a consortium and use a service provided to perhaps 6 or 10 firms on the base of the number of employees and the nature of the service required.

If an Occupational Health Service makes even small (!-2%) reduction in sickness absence rates……..and it will usually be far more effective, then it will comfortably meet its costs when the number of workers is 1,000 or more.

The Occupational Health Service will also be welcomed by the workers who will take its presence as an indicator of management’s concern-there will be less sickness, better morale and in the event of accident or injury proper records, urgent treatment on site, rapid transfer to secondary care, proper sick leave, compensation and retraining as appropriate.