The Occupational Health Safety and Research Bureau is committed to providing comprehensive specialized occupational health care of optimal quality, responsive to the needs of all industries and work places in Zambia. It aims to safeguard workers from occupational health hazards and to promote health and safety at work, targeting workers in all industries and work places.
The Workers Compensation Act No. 10 of 1999 (formerly Pneumoconiosis Act No. 217) currently makes it mandatory for miners to undergo :-
- Pre-placement (initial) medical examination
- Periodical (annual) medical examination
and it prescribes other compensable occupational diseases for control at places of work and for determination of certification for purposes of compensation.
Lung function testing (spirometry)
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The medical examinations and facilities at the bureau are now being made available to the general public, farmers, self-employed, small and medium scale business enterprises and to companies other than mines who are concerned about health and safety
at their work places.
Vision Screening
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The bureau offers the following at affordable costs :-
- X-Ray facility using
state-of-the-art
equipment.
- Rapid laboratory services
for a wide range of tests
including blood, urine
and stool testing.
- Audiometry tests to
determine hearing loss.
- Hearing aids fitment for
hearing-impaired.
- Vision screening to
determine colour
blindness and visual
acuity.
- Lung function tests
(spirometry) to diagnose
disorders of the lungs.
- Electro Cardiogram (ECG)
for heart screening.
- Out-reach Occupational
Health and Safety
services at your premises
for plant site risk
assessment. Our
specialist in
Occupational Health and
Safety visit your work
places to identify and
analyse potential hazards
and advise top management
(employer) on control of
substances hazardous to
health and safety
(COOSHS) of your
employees, environment,
community and to your
business such as from
chemicals, fumes dust
radiation, heat, noise
etc.
- First-Aid training to
company employees.
- Occupational health
training to your company
doctors, nurses, Clinical
officers or Safety
officers in principles of
hazard identification and
control.
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Hearing Level Assessment
(audiometry)
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- Confidential health
promotion counselling to
all employees on work
stress management, diets,
body weight and health,
travel medicine, sports
medicine, alcohol at places
of work, smoking and
health, hypertension,
diabetes, rashes, HIV/AIDS,
occupational asthma,
epilepsy, deafness at work
sites, occupational
musculoskeletal diseases,
etc.
Preventive health and safety at work-places is paramount to both top management and shop-floor workers and a priority agenda item at all company meetings.
Get yours and your workers health checked regularly for sound business in current competitive and lean labour market.
We would be pleased to meet you personally and discuss details of our services.
How healthy are you?
Let us help you to find out.
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Occupational Health Safety and Research Bureau has opened a new chapter in the provision of health care by introducing the Executive Health Check Up for individuals, their families and corporate organisations.
The Executive Health Check Up is designed to monitor the health status of all important systems in your body and screen you for the earliest symptoms of illness at a stage when treatment in much simpler, where total care is possible and to identify potential areas of hazards to prevent future health problems.
If you are in perfectly good health, the Executive Health Check Up serves as a reassurance of fitness and gives you a detailed medical profile of your health.
Occupational Health and Research Bureau is equipped with state of the art equipment providing investigative facilities which assure you of results that are accurate, consistent and reliable all under one roof and in a serene non-hospital environment.
The Executive Health Check Up features include :
- Assessment of your medical history together with a complete clinical examination by a physician.
- Resting electrocardiogram
- Chest x-ray
- Audiometry
- Vision screening
- Pulmonary function test (Optional)
- A set of 23 laboratory tests that gives you a complete report including liver function tests, kidney function, lipid profile, etc. at an affordable cost.
Clinical Laboratory
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The laboratory test include the following :
HAEMOGRAM
Haemoglobin
P.C.V
R.B.C
MCHC MCV MCH
Total WBC
Differential count
E.S.R
Peripheral smear
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LIPID PROFILE
Total cholesterol
HDL cholesterol
LDL cholesterol
Triglycerides
Total cholesterol / HDL ratio
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BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS
Random Blood sugar
Urea
Creatinine
Uric acid
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LIVER FUNCTION TESTS
Serium bilirubin
S G P T
S G O T
G G T P
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GENERAL TESTS
V D R L
Complete urine analysis
Stool test
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* Clinical Examination
* Medical summary
* Advise by one of the Senior Doctors.
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Heart Screening (ElectroCardioGram)
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The medical conditions usually encountered in Executives caused by the stressful life they lead, insufficient exercise, and consumption of excessive food and alcohol could readily be recognised and diagnosed by our Executive Health Check Up program
and then necessary preventative or therapeutic measures could be initiated.
X-Ray (Radiography)
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Your medical reports will be processed within 24 hours monitored by a senior doctor and discussed at the review, on the following day. If your doctor thinks specialist opinion is required, you will then be advised accordingly.
Strict confidentiality is a key principle and set procedures will be applied to preserve it. The accent will be on convenience and time.
REMEMBER
HEALTH IS NOT JUST ABOUT ILLNESS AND DISEASE
IT IS ABOUT LIFE AND LIVING
Regular Health Check Ups
Regular Health Check Ups are important and past experience has shown that the people taking part in such programmes are in better health on subsequent examinations and have lower than expected mortality rate.
Call us and fix up an appointment
for a day convenient to you
Mondays to Fridays.
Report for your Check Up on the
appointed day at 8:00am.
We are located at the corner of
Independence Avenue and Langashe Street,
Kitwe
MAKE USE OF THE FACILITIES RIGHT NOW
For appointments and details, contact :-
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