We’re here to help people stay well and to work in healthy organisations.
Occupational health is essential, but too often undervalued. In sectors like manufacturing, especially across the Southwest, businesses face real pressure: tight margins, ageing workforces, and rising absence linked to musculoskeletal strain, noise exposure, and mental health. Yet many OH providers remain remote, transactional, and out of touch with what’s actually happening on the ground.
Symbios is changing that.
We are a doctor-led occupational health company, built on the belief that better outcomes come from clinical expertise, personal relationships, and local presence. Every client has direct access to experienced, decision-making doctors. We walk factory floors, visit worksites, and understand how people work before we offer advice. That means faster answers, clearer decisions, and healthier organisations.
We walk factory floors, visit worksites, and understand how people work before we offer advice
Now more than ever is the time to get greater impact and value from occupational health. There is a better way, and we are putting it into practice.
We are bringing a fresh approach to Occupational Health in the South West by:
• Exploring your business and the health issues it faces.
• Understanding your requirements and expectations.
• Using named local staff, bringing the right skills, knowledge and expertise to your organisation.
ADDING VALUE
Returning value to your business
We’re already embedded in the region’s business ecosystem, working with over a third of the Plymouth Manufacturers’ Group, and continue to grow across the Southwest. But our investment here goes beyond contracts. We’re part of the community. We understand the pressures local employers face, and we’re committed to helping this region thrive-with healthier workforces, safer environments, and more resilient businesses.
We’re not scaling for its own sake. We’re doubling down on what makes us effective: fast access, grounded judgement, and trusted partnerships with HR leaders and health and safety teams.
Our ISO 9001 accreditation underpins how we work, and our growing team is building something bigger: structured service tiers, insight-driven content, and a model that can be replicated, region by region, relationship by relationship.
We believe occupational health should be strategic, personal, and clinically sound. That’s what we deliver—every day, for every client. And it pays off: from faster returns to work to clearer decisions, our work helps reduce absence and improve outcomes—because time, health, and clarity all cost money.
MECC
Making every contact count
A healthy workplace starts with teams and workplaces that enable people to stay well.
If things go wrong and people become unwell as they inevitably will, we offer early intervention and support to employees and management to whenever possible ensure a safe and healthy return to work at the right time and in the right way.
Significant savings can be made across budgets from reduced sickness absence in the future.
However, the UK population faces an impending health crisis with issues such as obesity, lack of exercise, unhealthy eating and smoking causing a high rate of diseases like diabetes, cancer and heart problems.
There is a strong evidence base that shows addressing these issues within the workplace and empowering employees to make changes to their health behaviour can be effective and lead to huge savings by reducing later sickness absence.
We employ the method of making every contact count by exploring with an employee at every encounter their wishes and needs with regard to making healthy changes and offering advice and support to enable them to do so.
This is all part of our delivery model at no extra cost to the organisation, but which when delivered effectively, leads to significant savings across budgets from reduced sickness absence in the future.
SERVICES WE OFFER
Delivering Occupational Health to you
Here’s an outline of our services but before you decide on how we deliver occupational health to you, we want to get to know you!
For an occupational health service to be most effective, there must be ongoing dialogue and good communication between a company and its occupational health representatives.
For us – this begins when we first make contact, we will explore your needs to ensure that we are a good fit and offer a no-obligation assessment of your occupational health needs and how we might deliver them.
Working together to combine your expertise and knowledge of your workplace.
Examples of our services include:
Pre-placement Medicals for New Starters
Ensuring that new employees are able to perform their proposed role from a medical perspective and that employers are aware of their obligations to new employees under disability legislation and what workplace adjustments could be considered where necessary.
Management Referrals
Offering interventions to support employees and managers with issues related to sickness absence, a healthy return to work, and the management of a health problem at work.
Health Surveillance
We offer the full remit of health surveillance- from audiology through to respiratory – but also asbestos, lead, COSHH and hand arm vibration assessments.
Ill-health Retirement
Support and advice to employees, managers and pension funds when a person is no longer able to continue in their role for health reasons.
Neurodiversity Training
Neurodiversity in the workplace training is something we can offer onsite. One of our qualified clinicians can come to you and train your employees and support you to be a neurodiverse friendly workplace.
Mental Health First Aid At Work
Would you like to be able to support your employees and have a supportive mental health team in the workplace? We can offer MHFAAW on site to your employees.
First Aid At Work
One of our trained clinicians can come on site and train employees to be a First Aider. We also do the annual refreshers too.
Our services are offered through a mix of face-to-face, video and telephone consultations as appropriate.
We also offer a range of other services including:
Emigration & Immigration Medicals
Our doctors include panel registered physicians covering countries including Australia, New Zealand, Canada. We also offer tuberculosis (TB) screening clinics for British nationals overseas.
Working at Height Medical
Working at height brings with it a number of safety critical risk factors that need to be considered in conjunction with a working knowledge of risks associated with health. We have developed safe and effective assessment procedures to help identify and mitigate these risks.
HGV/Group 2 License Medicals
Our clinicians will assess employees against the DVLA group 2 criteria, complete appropriate paperwork and provide guidance and advice as may be necessary.
Case Conferencing
For complex cases particularly those involving prolonged absence it is often essential to involve the occupational health team and we will strive happy to build a relationship with your business and make ourselves available should case conferencing be required.
Work Station & Visual Display Unit Assessment
We will help employers ensure that they are compliant with the health and safety regulations 2002- display screen equipment. We can also carry out workstation ergonomic assessments.
Executive Medicals
Executives often play a critical role in a business, should a medical incident necessitate time out of work this often has a significant consequence. Executive medicals place an emphasis on pre-emptive and proactive health management and are particularly useful for essential staff within a business.
Physiotherapy Assessments
We have our own very experienced and able physiotherapist in house who can offer assessments on site or remote.
Drug & Alcohol Testing
We are able to discuss and assist in drawing up policies to help companies manage the risk of drugs and alcohol within the workplace. We are able to offer point of care instant test kits as well as the more formal chain of custody and laboratory level analysis.
Occupational Hygiene Services & Testing
We have an established partnership with an experienced consultant who can offer the full remit of occupational hygiene services.
Confined Space Medicals
Working in a confined space is associated with a number of significant risks that are not compatible with certain disease profiles. We can help identify these risks and offer practical advice in terms of mitigation or employment solutions.
Vaccinations
We offer onsite vaccination clinics to vaccinate all employees for things like hepatitis. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Functional Capacity Assessments
These assessments help us quantify levels of capacity of individuals and are particularly useful when considering adjustments that may be considered for work or ill-health retirement.
CONTACT US
We’re here to help
Call us on 0800 999 1824, email hello@symbios.health or fill out the form below
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