Airbus, Broughton

Broughton is in the process of improving its Occupational Health Service. The overall strategy included a move away from the old paper medical records to a computerised system. OPAS has given the department greater control over its data, allowing us efficient access to general information and to produce useful reports.

We recognised from the beginning the Occupational Health Department would still receive and generate a certain amount of medical information that wouldn’t be computerised but that must be accessible. i.e. specialist reports, management referral forms, test results etc. With the OPAS Document Management system we are able to scan all documentation against a specific event or episode.

Retrieval is simple using the image management tool or by viewing the scanned images held against a specific episode/event. We are then free to archive all the hard copy documentation away from the department giving us much needed space. Administratively, scanning documents has added some time to the workload but the retrieval of the documents is much more efficient and the possibility of important documents being misplaced are eliminated.

Joanne Moore, Occupational Health, Airbus Broughton