MyGlasgow News

The University’s Occupational Health Service has achieved the for Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Services (SEQOSH) accreditation, becoming the first University OH service in Scotland, and only the second in the UK to do so.

The SEQOSH organization, in accrediting Occupational Health services, seeks to formally recognise that an OH service has demonstrated it has a competence to deliver against the measures in the SEQOSH standards.  It is a workforce-focused scheme based on the principal of independent assessment against recognised standards.  The scheme was developed for all OH services and providers across the UK in both the NHS and independent sector. 

The scheme is a stand-alone scheme managed by the Royal College of Physicians of London who manage the process on behalf of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.  (Here is the link to the SEQOSH website - http://www.seqohs.org/)

It aims to; 

1)    Enable services to identify the standards of practice to which they should aspire

2)    Credit good work being done by high quality Occupational Health services, providing independent validation that they satisfy standards of quality

3)    Raise standards where they need to be raised

4)    Help purchasers differentiate Occupational Health services which attain the desired standards from those who do not

The staff of the University's Occupational Health Unit have devised and updated OH policies and protocols as well as streamlining data systems for internal and external customers in addition to critically examining and modifying the way they undertake tasks to ensure compliance with current best practice.

SEQOSH accreditation is fast becoming a nationally recognised standard for OH units across the country in much the same way that the ISO9000 standards are accepted across businesses. 

 

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First published: 18 January 2013