Occupational Health Service
Occupational Health Service enquiries number: 01865 (2)82676
Fax: 01865 (2)82678
Email: enquiries@uohs.ox.ac.uk
Website: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/uohs
Postal address: University Occupational Health Service, 10 Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PD.
Director of the Occupational Health Service and University Occupational Physician: Dr Ian Brown
PA to the Director of the Occupational Health Service: Ms Amanda Wiedeman
The University Occupational Health Service is responsible for implementing management strategy and policies approved by the University’s Health and Safety Management Committee to enable the University to discharge its legal obligations in respect of occupational health and safety. The Director has a small team of consultants, specialist nurses and administrators undertaking the full spectrum of occupational health responsibilities for the University departments, administration and many of the colleges. This involves consultations, statutory and non-statutory medical examinations, specialist travel medicine, occupational toxicology and advice on disability, fitness to study and legislative matters as they may affect health and work.
The Director of Occupational Health, Ian Brown, reports to the Registrar and collaborates with many other officers in the University, especially the Director of the Safety Office, the Director of Personnel and Administrative Services, and colleagues in Public Health Medicine and the Medical School, where he has a particular interest in fitness for professional training in medical undergraduates. He also has close contacts with the Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (where he holds an honorary consultant contract).
Profile of the Director of the Occupational Health Service
Ian Brown undertook undergraduate training in Agricultural Sciences and then Medicine at Newcastle University, followed by postgraduate studies in Metabolic and then Occupational Diseases. Initially sponsored by British Coal and taking a special interest in occupational lung disease, he became an accredited specialist in Occupational Medicine in 1989 and a registered toxicologist in 1995. Immediately prior to his appointment in Oxford in 2008, he was Director of Occupational Health for the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Southampton.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London and a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine, and was awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to public health, especially low-dose toxicology at the workplace and within the food chain. He is an expert independent advisor to the Government.
His primary interests are those that involve fitness and rehabilitation back to work, especially in higher education, and he is widely published on fitness for work, epilepsy at the workplace and specialised aspects of toxicology.
