As an employer, you should:
- protect workers’ health against damaging effects of work;
- ensure that people are fit for the jobs that they are doing;
- investigate the effects of work on health;
- help people with health problems or disabilities to work under conditions which are best suited for them;
- maintain a safe and healthy workplace; and
- use the workplace as an opportunity to promote health and generally improve the health of the workforce.
See NHS Plus (an occupational health resource) for more information.