HSC – Occupational Health Advisory Committee (OHAC) – Occupational Health Reference Group

OHAC was set up to advise the Commission on encouraging systems for managing health at work; developing occupational health services and competencies; improving data on occupational disease and promoting health in the workplace. Details of OHAC’s meetings and its terms of reference when it met are found at the bottom of this page.

OHAC has now evolved into the Occupational Health Reference Group (OH Reference Group) as part of the new HSC Strategy which gives a key place to Occupational Health in achieving improvement in working days lost and the incidence of cases of ill-health.

The OH Reference Group (which includes ex-members of OHAC) meet several times during the year to discuss areas of work on occupational health issues that HSE is developing and specifically those related to the delivery of the Securing Health Together agenda.

A core element of this work is developing around the areas of innovative engagement, testing several different types of partnership working in the areas of Worker Involvement, Corporate Social Responsibility and Occupational Health Support and Rehabilitation to determine whether new forms of intervention are more successful at tackling the health agenda.

A quarterly newsletter is sent to interested parties updating them on current developments in the work on improving occupational health.

Publications

• Report and recommendations on improving access to occupational health support

OHAC's Terms of Reference

To consider and advise the Commission on the health of people at work (excluding matters pertaining to other subject advisory committees) and in particular on:

• encouraging systems for managing health at work;
• developing occupational health services and competencies;
• improving data on occupational disease;
• promoting health in the workplace;
• specific matters referred by the Commission or Executive.

If you require further information please contact: The Secretary (OHAC), Health and Safety Executive, 6SW, Rose Court, 2 Southwark Bridge, London SE19HS.