Welcome to Occupational Health

Occupational Health examines the effects of your health on your work, and your work on your health.

The Occupational Health Unit (OHU) is an advisory service whose role is to provide impartial advice regarding fitness for work to line managers who are responsible for staff and monitoring and control of sickness absence. This advice is aimed at assisting employees to regain and retain their good health and return to a suitable job as soon as their recovery allows.

The Unit is part of the department of Health, Safety and Wellbeing. There are two other departments in Health Safety and Wellbeing, (Radiation Protection Service and Safety and Environmental Protection Service), and together we form one of the University Services which provide support to staff and students across the University in a variety of areas.

Information about the role of the Occupational Health Unit in the University is available here in our leaflet What we do Information for Heads of School and Line Managers can be found here.

Information for Employees referred to Occupational Health can be found here.

Occupational Health is located at 63 Oakfield Avenue. The map below illustrates the location of the Unit (E10 on campus map).

Occupational Health provides the following services:

• to protect your health whilst at work
• to assess and advise on your ongoing fitness for work
• to ensure that work related health issues are managed effectively. 

Services available

• Fitness Assessment
• Advice relating to concerns at work

Health Surveillance

For some aspects of work, Occupational Health monitors the health of University employees. This includes areas where people work with respiratory sensitisers and those working in noisy environments.

Treatment services

Occupational Health is unable to provide a treatment service.  All staff and students are advised to register with a GP close to where they live. The Barclay Medical Practice based in the Fraser Building can offer advice and treatment to those registered there and, in an emergency, to visitors and staff/students not registered.

Self referral

Employees can contact Occupational Health by telephone on 0141 330 7171 in order to arrange a confidential appointment to discuss the effects of their health on their work, or of their work on their health, in order to receive advice and support. 

Psychology and Psychiatry

Employees can be referred through one of the Occupational Health Advisers to either the University Psychological or Psychiatric Services.