To this end our Occupational Health service is continually evolving in this sector to promote health in both the local populations and businesses.


Occupational Health has advanced, particularly in recent years, from not only focusing on the reduction of occupational risks and the evaluation of work accidents but actively promoting general health and the adoption of healthier lifestyles.


This area of health regards the workplace as an advantageous setting where employees spend most of their day carrying out activities that may have an impact on both physical and mental wellbeing, not only during the hours spent at work but on lifestyle in general. Each individual is an indivisible being and therefore it is impossible to separate the “working person” from other personal and social roles such as being a mother, a wife or participating in the community, etc.


Occupational Health professionals are in a position, during a consultation, to recognise the functions that an individual carries out, assess their working environment and highlight the professional risks the employee is exposed to (and how to reduce them). At the same time, after, identifying each individual personality, advising on how to increase healthy lifestyle choices and making sure their workplace promotes health.


These advantages are not just for the employee. Studies have shown that companies offering quality, personalised Occupational Health care are able to not only promote employee health but also make the workplace a safe environment for optimising job performance, increasing productivity and decreasing absenteeism, accidents at work and occupational diseases. This investment brings a reduction in costs for the company regarding absenteeism, work accidents and compensation.

As stated by the DGS, ensuring the protection and health promotion of ALL employees through a healthy work environment and ensuring supervision by a quality Occupational Health Services will enable the “workforce” to maintain the highest level of health, satisfaction, motivation and production, open to innovation and free enterprise and boost work sustainability.


Nurse Sofia Pereira
Nursing Supervisor
Luzdoc International Medical Service

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