EH&S Occupational Health
Purpose
The SAP Occupational Health application component supports general employee occupational health care in your enterprise, as well as the planning and execution of special health surveillance protocols.
Special surveillance is required for those persons who may be exposed to certain influences of a chemical, physical or biological nature at their workplace, or who perform activities that pose a health hazard. Health surveillance protocols can also include vaccinations or – as in the USA - random drug tests.
Occupational Health comprises the following components:
This component enables you to specify the data that you require for managing the occupational health protocols used in your enterprise. This includes defining and assigning examinations, health surveillance protocols, trigger levels and so on.
You can use
question catalog and questionnaire functions to create occupational health questionnaires. The data required to compile questionnaires is created and managed in the question catalog. Questionnaires can be completed online in the system, or be printed out and scanned into the system again once they have been completed.This component enables you to determine which persons need to be registered for health surveillance protocols. You can also create medical services and plan the appropriate appointments for each of them.
You use this component to enter and manage all the necessary examination data, such as diagnoses, examination results, work restrictions for health reasons and so on. You can also import the results of medical tests from external systems. And occupational health questionnaires are also completed in the medical service component.
This component enables you to access and edit all the data on the case history of a person, as well as the data on consultations and follow-up activities (medical measures).
You can also edit and manage health surveillance protocols, examinations, diagnoses, restrictions and so on in the same way as you do in a medical service.
This component is used for statistical evaluations of the data.
This component enables you to enter and manage data in the SAP System for any in-company medical treatment. This includes first aid in the event of accidents or minor injuries, treatment of old injuries or treatment of persons who feel unwell.
Integration
You require master data from the Personnel Administration component such as name, first name, date of birth, and personnel number (for the USA, you also need the social security number) in order to use employee data.
The system uses organizational units (object types) from Organizational Management to assign agents to persons in the basic data component. You must therefore make sure that positions, jobs and tasks are maintained in Organizational Management.
You need master data from Recruitment such as name and first name in order to use applicant data.
You need master data from Business Partners such as name and first name in order to use data for external persons (for example, customers).
The following Occupational Health functions are for employees only:
The settings for exposure-relevant data are made in Industrial Hygiene and Safety. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Occupational Health.
If you are using the Industrial Hygiene and Safety component, you can also transfer entries from the injury/illness log to the incident/accident log.
Specification management in Product Safety is used to define agents. For more information, see the Implementation Guide (IMG) for Occupational Health.