Corporate & employee health blog

Field notes for HR and EHS teams — preventive health, occupational safety, workplace environment and employee benefits.

58 articles

First Aid Certificate Validity in India: When to Renew

Most workplace first aid and CPR certificates in India are treated as valid for one to two years, and many employers refresh CPR every year. Here is how to read the validity on a certificate, when to renew and how to track expiry across sites.

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Occupational Health

Onsite Clinic vs OHC in India: Which Does Your Workplace Need?

An onsite clinic is a convenience and early-care service, usually for offices; an occupational health centre (OHC) is a legal requirement for many hazardous factories and adds statutory duties. Here is how to tell which one your site needs.

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Wellness Calendar

Corporate Wellness Program Cost in India: What Drives the Budget

There is no single price for a corporate wellness programme in India: cost is driven by headcount, cities, workforce type and which components you choose. This guide shows how to build and defend a budget line by line.

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First Aid Training

Building a First Aid Responder Roster for Every Floor and Shift

Training first aiders is only half the job; the other half is making sure a trained person is present on every floor, every shift and every site. Here is how Indian employers can build and maintain a first aid responder roster.

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Risk Assessment

Employee Health Statistics in India: What the Public Data Says

Public surveys show a high burden of diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, anaemia, tobacco use and mental health conditions among working-age Indians. Here are the key figures from linkable sources, and what they mean for employers.

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Risk Assessment

Your Employee HRA Report Is In: What HR Should Do Next

Once the aggregate HRA report arrives, HR should check participation, pick the two or three biggest risk areas, match each to a specific action and set a date to re-measure. Here is a step-by-step way to turn the report into a 90-day plan.

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Mental Health

Stress Management Workshops for Employees: What Actually Works

Stress workshops work when they are practical, short, tailored to the audience and followed by support. Here is what to include, what to avoid and how to tell whether your workshop helped.

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Wellness

A 12-Minute Desk Yoga Routine for Office Employees (With Safety Notes)

This 12-minute desk yoga routine eases neck, shoulder, back and wrist stiffness and can be done in work clothes at your workstation. Follow the steps, respect the safety notes and stop if anything hurts.

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Wellness

How to Start a Corporate Fitness Program in India: A 12-Week Plan

Start a corporate fitness program by measuring a baseline, choosing a few activities that suit your workforce, running a 12-week cycle with team challenges and re-measuring. This guide gives HR a step-by-step plan.

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First Aid Training

AED in the Office: A Practical Guide for Indian Workplaces

An AED helps a colleague in cardiac arrest only if it can be reached in minutes and someone nearby is trained to use it. This guide covers how AEDs work, where to place them, how to maintain them and who to train.

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Occupational Health

How to Choose an OHC Provider in India: 2026 Checklist

Choose an OHC provider by checking legal knowledge for your state, doctor and nurse qualifications, relief cover, records, emergency planning and transparent pricing. Use this 12-point checklist to compare vendors.

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Insurance

Employee Health Benefits in India: What to Offer Beyond Group Health Insurance

Beyond group health insurance, Indian employers can offer health checkups, health risk assessments, tele-consults, onsite doctors, family health plans, counselling, wellness sessions and first aid training. Here is how to choose and combine them.

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Occupational Health

Factory Medical Checkup Tests by Hazard: Noise, Dust, Chemicals and Heat

Match factory medical checkup tests to the hazard: audiometry for noise, spirometry and chest X-ray for dust, exposure-specific tests for chemicals and heat-stress screening for hot work. A hazard-by-hazard guide for EHS teams.

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Wellness Calendar

Measuring the Impact of Employee Wellness Sessions in India

Measure each wellness session on attendance, screening and follow-up conversion, behaviour intent and repeat participation — then roll those up into risk trends over the year. A practical, session-level measurement guide for HR.

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Occupational Health

Construction Site Medical Requirements in India: A BOCW Checklist for First Aid, Ambulance and OHC

First aid, trained first-aiders, ambulance and occupational health service at construction sites under the BOCW Act. A practical checklist for site managers.

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Occupational Health

Onsite Clinic with an MBBS Doctor and Nurse: How to Set One Up in Your Office or Factory

How to set up an onsite clinic at your office or factory: nurse-only room vs doctor visits vs full OHC, staffing, equipment, records and costs to plan for.

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Occupational Health

Standby Ambulance for Office, Factory or Construction Site: BLS vs ALS and How to Hire

Hiring an ambulance for your office, factory, construction site or event? Compare BLS vs ALS, on-site vs on-call, staffing, response time and contract terms.

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Wellness Calendar

Health Talks for Employees: How to Run Health Sessions in the Office That People Actually Attend

How to run health talks and health sessions in the office that employees attend: formats, topics by team, timing, speakers and how to measure impact.

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Health Checkups

Employee Health Checkup Camp at the Workplace: A Step-by-Step Guide for HR

Plan an onsite employee health checkup camp step by step: tests by role, scheduling, space, consent and privacy, reports and follow-up for HR teams in India.

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Occupational Health

Ambulance Room Requirement Under the Factories Act: What Employers Must Know

Factories employing more than 500 workers are generally required to maintain an ambulance room with qualified staff and prescribed equipment. Here is what that means in practice — and how to stay inspection-ready.

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Occupational Health

AFIH Qualification Explained: When Your Factory Needs an AFIH Doctor

AFIH — Associate Fellow of Industrial Health — is the qualification factory rules expect for doctors examining workers in hazardous processes. Here is what it is, when it is required, and how to staff it.

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Occupational Health

OHC Cost in India: Setup and Monthly Running Cost Explained

What does an occupational health centre actually cost? The honest answer is: it depends on staffing, shifts and equipment level. Here is a clear breakdown of every cost component and the drivers that move it up or down.

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Occupational Health

In-House vs Outsourced OHC: Which Is Right for Your Plant?

Should you hire your own OHC staff or outsource the whole centre to a specialist provider? A practical comparison across cost, compliance risk, quality and control — with a decision framework for Indian factories.

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Wellness Calendar

Corporate wellness in India: the 2026 playbook for HR teams

What corporate wellness really means in India in 2026 — the programmes that work, what they cost per employee, and how to prove yours is doing anything at all.

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Wellness Calendar

Employee wellness in India: what employees actually want (and what they ignore)

Indian employees rate health checkups, private mental health support and family coverage as the wellness benefits they value most. Here is what gets used, what gets ignored, and how to design for the former.

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Health Checkups

Annual health checkup in India: what every employer must know

Who must get a statutory annual health checkup in India, which tests are mandated for factories, construction and food businesses, and how to run a compliant programme that is genuinely useful.

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First Aid Training

First aid training in India: certificate, cost and course format explained

Everything employers ask about first aid training in India — what the certificate covers, how long courses run, what they cost, the CPR and AED content, and how many employees to train.

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First Aid Training

First aid training certificates in India: what employers should check

Not every first aid certificate is worth the paper it is printed on. What a credible workplace first aid course includes, how long certificates stay valid, and what auditors look for.

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First Aid Training

CPR training at work: how many employees should be trained?

Cardiac arrest survival drops about 10% for every minute without CPR. Here is how to decide how many of your employees need CPR training — and how to keep the skill alive.

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Wellness Calendar

Corporate wellness programs in India: a practical guide for HR

What separates a wellness program employees actually use from a poster on the notice board — budgets, formats, and how to prove it worked.

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Wellness Calendar

Employee wellness ideas that actually work in Indian offices

From desk-stretch rituals to step challenges — practical, low-cost employee wellness ideas Indian HR teams can run this quarter.

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Health Checkups

What an annual health checkup for employees costs in India — and what to include

From ₹199 basic screening to executive panels: how annual health checkup pricing works in India, and how to choose the right package for each employee group.

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Occupational Health

OHC Requirements under the Factories Act and OSH Code: A Practical Guide

When a factory needs an ambulance room or occupational health centre, who must staff it, and how the OSH Code 2020 changes the picture.

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Health Checkups

Pre-Employment Medical Checkup: Tests Required by Industry in India

Which pre-employment tests make sense for factory, construction, driving, food and office roles — and how HR should read the fitness opinion.

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Occupational Health

Form 32 and Form 33 Explained for HR and EHS Teams

What the health register and certificate of fitness are, who signs them, and how to keep them audit-ready.

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Occupational Health

OHC Equipment and Medicine Checklist for Factories

A practical starting list of equipment, consumables and medicines for an occupational health centre — and how to keep it in date.

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Occupational Health

Biomedical Waste Management Rules for Workplace Clinics

How the BMW Rules, 2016 apply to factory OHCs and office medical rooms: segregation, storage, handover and records.

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Risk Assessment

How Health Risk Assessment Helps Lower Group Health Insurance Costs

What aggregated HRA data can and cannot do at renewal, and how to use it with your broker without compromising employee privacy.

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Health Checkups

Annual Health Checkup Packages for Employees: What to Include

A simple way to build annual checkup packages by age, gender and job — and what to leave out.

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Wellness Calendar

10 Corporate Wellness Session Ideas for 2026 (Onsite and Online)

Ten practical wellness session ideas for Indian workplaces that work onsite, online or hybrid.

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First Aid Training

First Aid Training Requirements for Workplaces in India

First aid boxes, trained first aiders per shift, CPR and AED skills, and refresher cycles for Indian workplaces.

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Health Checkups

Corporate Health Checkup Packages: Buyer's Guide 2026

What to include in an employee checkup programme, what it should cost, onsite camp vs lab visits, and how to compare vendors before you sign.

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Occupational Health

Factories Act Medical Examination Requirements: Who Needs Which Tests

Hazardous-process schedules, certifying surgeon examinations, Form 7 health registers, frequencies and the audit failures we see most often in Indian plants.

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Health Checkups

Pre-Employment Medical Checkup in India: Tests, Fitness Opinion, Records

Role-wise test panels, how a fitness-for-duty opinion should read, and DPDP-compliant record keeping HR can defend in an audit or a dispute.

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Wellness Calendar

How to Start a Corporate Wellness Program in India on a Real Budget

From an HRA baseline to a 12-month themed calendar: what to run, per-employee budgets in Indian terms, and the participation metrics HR should report.

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Occupational Health

Setting Up an Occupational Health Centre: The Complete India Checklist

OHC manpower, room and equipment requirements, ambulance and medicines, OPD software and statutory registers — what to prepare before the inspector visits.

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Risk Assessment

Employee Mental Health Screening at Work: PHQ-9, GAD-7 and Next Steps

Why screen, how PHQ-9 and GAD-7 work, confidentiality boundaries, the counsellor pathway, and how to report to leadership without ever naming names.

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Risk Assessment

Why every employer needs a health risk assessment — and why ours is free to start

A health risk assessment shows where your workforce is heading, not just where it stands today. Start free on corporatehealth.in and act while risks are still reversible.

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Health Checkups

Annual and pre-employment health checkups: what they protect you from

Annual checkups catch disease early; pre-employment checkups tell you whether a candidate is fit for the actual job. Here is how to run both well.

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First Aid Training

First aid training saves lives in the first four minutes

Ambulances take time. Trained colleagues do not. Why first aid and CPR training is the highest-return safety spend in any workplace.

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Wellness Calendar

Why a wellness calendar beats one-off health events

Scattered activities create noise; a 12-month themed calendar creates habit. How the corporatehealth.in calendar builder plans your year from your own risk data.

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Digital Health

Digital health records and e-consultation are the new default

Employees now expect their reports, prescriptions and doctor access in one app. Here is what good digital health record management looks like — and how we deliver it.

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Risk Assessment

Why Asian-Indian BMI cut-offs change your workforce risk picture

A BMI of 24 is 'normal' globally but overweight for Indian bodies. Using the right cut-offs typically doubles the flagged population — and that is a good thing.

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Health Checkups

From 38% to 82%: lifting annual health checkup participation

Participation is a logistics problem, not a motivation problem. Slot choice, on-site camps and same-day digital reports do most of the work.

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Environmental Health

Indoor air quality is a productivity line item

PM2.5 and CO2 inside offices track absenteeism and cognitive test scores. Both are cheap to measure and cheaper to fix than most wellness spends.

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Occupational Health

Building a hearing conservation programme that inspectors respect

Noise mapping, dosimetry and audiometry in one loop — what factory EHS teams need to document.

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First Aid Training

How many first-aiders does your site actually need?

A practical ratio, refresher cadence and drill design for offices, warehouses and plants.

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Insurance

Linking wellness outcomes to your group insurance renewal

Insurers price on claims history. Documented risk reduction gives you something to negotiate with.

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