Working Health Services Scotland (WHSS)

If any of your employees has a health condition which is impacting on their work, they could benefit from WHSS.  

WHSS provides free and confidential advice and health support for the self-employed and people working in companies with less than 250 employees.

Working Health Services Scotland - Ill health and absence - Workplace guidance - Healthy Working Lives - Public Health Scotland

 

About WHSS

The service aims to help:

  • employees manage their condition and remain at work
  • a return to work if a short period of sickness absence occurs
  • prevent them having further periods of sickness
  • signpost employees for advice on a range of issues such as housing, debt management etc

Where necessary, the programme can provide quick access to:

  • counselling
  • physiotherapy

 

Healthy Working Lives

Healthy Working Lives is a Public Health Scotland programme to support workplace health and wellbeing.  The programme provides a wide range of resources, information and training on all aspects of work related health promotion and ill health prevention, return to work and workplace safety.

Healthy Working Lives - Public Health Scotland