Glaxo Wellcome, Inc. Evaluation Summary |
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OHS provides a variety of services to help employees minimize time away form work toaddress personal, medical and emotional needs, i.e., immunizations, breast pumps inclinics and quiet, private areas; foreign travel consultations; OTC medications on request;and wound care and treatments under standing medical protocols. Occupational healthprofessionals routinely work with safety, industrial hygiene and engineering personnel toadvise management on issues related to indoor air quality, food services, ergonomics andnew process introductions. Health and safety staff work collegially to pool their expertise inoccupational medicine, occupational health nursing, occupational toxicology and hygiene,ergonomics, radiation safety, hazard communication, and safety training with the intent tosafeguard worker health. In collaboration with Environmental Safety, OHS tracks anddocuments compliance with regulations regarding hazard awareness/training andassesses occupational hazards to determine the appropriate engineering controls andpersonal protective equipment. OHS establishes a personal medical record for eachemployee, according to the guidelines for confidentiality from AMA, ACOEM and AAOHNCode of Ethics. GW conducts periodic evaluations of its health, safety and environmentalprograms at the R&D and manufacturing sites. (See Documentation) The strategic goals of the Health Promotion Program are to increase employees' healthknowledge and build life skills that support lifelong healthy behaviors and practices. Thisprogram impacts current healthcare costs, future healthcare costs, morale, andproductivity. Continuous program evaluation examines participation in health and wellnessprogramming, evidence of behavior change, and the impacts on health costs. Currenthealth promotion emphasis includes analyzing data obtained from a rewards-basedprogram called the Contract for Health & Wellness to determine the effect of employees'annual commitment to their health on activity levels, nutrition practices, stressmanagement, tobacco use and self care. On-site longitudinal programming is designed, tocreate "something for everyone", determined from where employees assessed themselvesusing the stages of change model. (See Documentation) The strategic goals that guide the integrated disABILITY Management Program are to:promote prevention and early intervention to reduce the effects of the onset of disability;ensure employee access to optimal, quality health care; minimize the effects of disability,duration of illness and absence from work; facilitate early return to work with resultingdecrease in lost work days, thereby increasing productivity; contain direct and indirect costsassociated with disability; maximize job satisfaction and worker morale; and evaluate overallprogram effectiveness using outcomes measures. Nurse case managers use Perry'sDisability Guidelines, screening for psychosocial problems, and oversee and direct the returnto work process and coordinates continued care and follow-up through the five onsite OHSClinics. A Disability Case Review Team provides direction for the employee's efficientmovement through the health care system and back to productive employment. (SeeDocumentation) To promote early detection of diseases, OHS offers a variety of screenings to employees.Three screening and health education programs have been offered annually since 1996:breast and dermal cancer screenings and hemochromatosis screening. Each year, the on-site OHS clinics offer breast care education, professional exams, and self-exam educationto all employees and mammograms to female employees who are 50 or older and/or at highrisk for breast cancer. (Mammograms are also available to female dependents at one of theclinic locations). OHS staff follow-up with employees and their providers to ensure that theyreceived quality after-care. In late spring, each on-site OHS clinic offers "Sense in the Sun"education to all employees and dermal screening to employees at high risk for skin cancer.A workplace hemochromatosis screening program was implemented and evaluated.Hemochromatosis is a common inherited disorder of iron metabolism with significant healthconsequences if left untreated. However, if the condition is detected in the pre-cirrhoticstage, it is easily treated with medically monitored phlebotomy. (See Documentation) OHS also provides for the support of employees', their families' and retirees' mental,intellectual and social needs with programming that includes an Employee AssistanceProgram (the Personal Support Network), and work and personal life balance support(LifeWorks). The focus of the Personal Support Network is to provide rapid, confidentialaccess to mental health care, at no cost. LifeWorks provides telephonic, on-line and groupresources and referrals for child care, elder care, self-care for work/life balance issues, andeducational resources for employees, their dependents and retirees. Both programsfacilitate employees' ability to focus on work without the distraction of personal issues. (See Documentation) Copyright © 1998 The Health Project. All Rights Reserved. |
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