Blood pressure

Blood pressure can be a very important part to monitor in employees as an employer. As high blood pressure is known to be hypertension.

With the lifestyle in which many of us live with bad eating habits or not a healthy lifestyle, hypertension can be a very common within individuals causing many risks such as:

• A stroke
• Heart attack
• Aneurysms (swelling and weakening of arteries)
• Kidney problems

This can have major impact on employees abilities to work or may not be able to work at all. For example hypertension can have an effect on individuals memory, and also being able to cause heart attacks and strokes. What if your employee is driving a FLT truck/ Vocational driving or is lone working as was to have any of these problems.