Hi Fellow Safety Professionals,

Does anyone have any experience with employee anti-coagulant medicine use risk assessments?

I have been asked by our Occupational helath Provider to write a RA for an employee who wishes to retrun to work, post having stents fitted due to a minor heart attack.

I completely agree with A Kurdziel.

There is not much point in engaging with an Occipational Health provider if they dont provide details about how to manage health in an occupational setting (rather than a medical setting).

The standard (and correct) answer to these types of questions is to refer them to an Occ Health provider!

Nearly finished for the day so just joining in for a moan:

 I have encountered helpful OH providers but when I looked after the DSE programme for a few thousand people the OH  assessment would typically consist of a wordy summary of what the affected individual had told them plus some generic text about (for example) lower spinal conditions. It would then conclude that “someone” (muggins here) needed to carry out a workstation assessment and  “get a lumbar support chair”.

 I ALREADY KNEW THAT!

 As I’ve just commented about something else OH providers also sell the ability to claim diligence when dealing with an employee with a health condition in case of complaints, tribunals, etc.