Occupational health services for the food and hospitality industry

Catering for the global oil and gas industry brings challenging logistical issues not generally faced in high street restaurants and hotels.

With more than 25 years of experience in providing a range of services for the oil and gas industry, Abermed has specialist knowledge of the difficulties faced in an offshore environment.

We understand that the catering industry often has a highly mobile workforce and that providing good health care is not only a vital issue but can also help retain your reliable and fully trained staff.

Abermed carries out the majority of OGUK offshore medicals and we have considerable experience of providing catering medicals (onshore and offshore food handling), catering reviews and food handling certification.

We are aware of the particular health needs of the catering industry - for example the increased risk of chefs and catering assistants developing dermatitis. Our comprehensive occupational health service covers the complete range of work‐related health issues, from prevention and control measures to maintain health and wellbeing in the workplace through to recommendations on treatment and legal issues.

Our team of experienced medical professionals includes occupational health nurses and doctors, occupational hygienists, counsellors, dieticians and physiotherapists.

They can provide a flexible and individual service to help with:

• Managing sickness absence and phased return to work
• Alleviation and management of stress
• Advising companies on Health and Safety policies
• Substance abuse programmes
• Tests to identify and control potential health hazards

A key part of the service is nutrition and diet therapy which can be coupled with health promotion work to ensure that food being served – particularly offshore – is healthy as well as tasty, and offer advice on changing habits to gradually improve employee’s lifestyles.

For short term, long term, emergency or planned industrial and occupational medicine, there is only one name – Abermed.