Ensuring that staff are fit and capable starts at pre-employment as does their understanding of how they might stay fit and capable during their employment.
Work can be described as "The application of mental or physical effort to a purpose".
Sickness absence is often seen as a difficult subject because ‘ownership' can be spread between line management, human resources and occupational health.
Employee assistance programmes, or counselling services, were originally introduced to help deal with addiction in the workplace.
This is a big subject and covers services from gym provision to online health questionnaires.
