managingABSENCE supports employees who are off sick, supports managers who have to manage the employee absence and supports the company or organisation in an attempt to improve services and profitability by increasing attendance.

There are over 30 reasons why employees are unable to attend work, but only one of these is medical. Employee absence is a major issue for all companies and organisations. The loss of a key employee is devastating to a small business. Being able to reduce employee absence by 1% in a large organisation impacts significantly on profitability and future success.

Managing employee absence is challenging for all managers and for some particularly daunting. With new disability legislation, issues of confidentiality and individual freedom laws, managers often feel bewildered and unsure of which questions they can ask, how they can support employees and how far an issue is confidential or appropriate to the employer.

managingABSENCE allows the employee to call a local number, seven days a week, 365 days of the year, to report their absence. The same day they are contacted by a managingABSENCE Occupational Health Nurse to discuss their particular issue and to provide advice and support on how the issue can be resolved, for example, whether they should attend their General Practitioner or immediately go to their local Accident & Emergency Department, or request medication from their Pharmacist.

The Occupational Health Nurse agrees with the employee a convenient time to call back to monitor the employee's progress and when the issue is resolved, the Occupational Health Nurse is able to conduct a return to work interview to ensure that the employee is fit and able to return to work.

At each stage of the process, the employer's line manager is provided with a detailed, confidential report by email. This can be then transferred to the employee's personnel file. In addition, the line manager and senior managers within the employing organisation are able to access the webbased data in a fully secure manner to review employee absence trends, specific employee's cases and further data specific to their company or organisation, providing patterns of absence, absence rates and the Bradford scales for particular employees.

managingABSENCE provides the employer with a proactive method of managing employee absence or recording absence data and of reviewing and supporting particular employees.

managingABSENCE assists managers and their employers in managing employees' complex and confidential health issues.

managingABSENCE captures important information regarding the health affects of accidents at work and other processes within the workplace.

managingABSENCE allows senior management to access employee absence/attendance data whenever they wish and wherever they are.

managingABSENCE removes confrontation within an organisation.

managingABSENCE ensures that absence and attendance is managed by managers.

managingABSENCE ensures that absence issues are managed fairly and with reference to an organisation's absence policy.

managingABSENCE is confidential

managingABSENCE is immediate

managingABSENCE is cost effective.

The managingABSENCE database will identify employees with frequent or regular short term patterns of absence, thus ensuring early intervention by management, providing assistance to the employee.

managingABSENCE will identify particular employees with a history of prolonged absence.

managingABSENCE will assist managers in the ongoing process of managing absence due to ill health, creating a programme of rehabilitation back to work to support the employee.

managingABSENCE will demonstrate a cost benefit to your Company or Organisation.

managingABSENCE is flexible, allowing the employing organisation to set specific parameters pertinent to their organisation with regards to allowable absence rates, total days of absence per annum, length of time they wish the service provided for and the point at which they wish a more formal Occupational Health Management process to commence.

managingABSENCE is key to ensuring the health, safety and welfare of a company or organisation's employees and the first piece in the jigsaw or employee support facilities.

managingABSENCE is a Preventative Healthcare Company. Preventative Healthcare are able to provide the full range of occupational health services, including pre-employment services, long term absence management, health surveillance and health promotion programmes.