All About Health-Check
What is Health-Check?
Health-Check is a Health Monitoring Program administrated by International SOS in Paris, France for Total Gestion Internationale (TGI). It is a medical examination that can be performed in any International SOS accredited medical centres.
Who is eligible ?
All Total Gestion Internationale (TGI ) employees and their dependents (when they live in the assignment country of the employee).
What is the cost for the employee?
All Health-Check examinations are paid by your employer: you do not need to advance any payment.
What is the objective of the Health-Check program?
- To ensure that high mobility staff employees and their dependents are fit to travel, work and live outside their country of residence.
- To maintain a confidential medical record for each individual that can be used in case of emergencies, hospitalisation or medical evacuation.
What is included in Health-Check examination?
- A complete clinical examination
- Blood, urine and stool analysis
- Audiogram
- Electrocardiogram (resting)
- Stress test (when applicable)
- Prostatic Specific Antigen (when applicable)
- Mammography (when applicable)
- Vaccination updating
What is the role of International SOS?
- To manage the centralisation of medical evaluations (analysis and processing), input, validation and administration of information by using a tailor-made computer program.
- To send reminder letters by e-mail for pre-employment and periodic checkups.
- To provide an International SOS Health-Check website with the information of previous Health-Check examinations.
- To send regular reports to Total Gestion Internationale (TGI ) Medical and HR Department.
Frequency of Examinations
When a new employee is hired and before signing their contract with Total Gestion Internationale (TGI ), they must undergo, where legally acceptable, a Health-Check pre-employment examination.
The pre-employment checkup enables to determine an individual’s medical fitness for a position and specific geographic location.
After the initial checkup, the employee and dependents will have to undergo a Health-Check examination every year.
You and Health-Check
You have to undergo a Health-Check:
- If you are already an employee in order to ensure that you and your dependents are fit to travel, work and live outside your country of residence.
- If you are a potential new hire to ensure that you are fit for the position and geographic location you are applying for.
To do so, you will need to:
- Make an appointment with one of the accredited medical providers at reception of notification e-mail.
- Prepare the personal information required for the Health-Check examination about to be conducted. This can be done by filling out the online Health-Check questionnaire and printing a hard copy in case the Examining Physician or Medical Provider does not have access to your online questionnaire.
- Undergo your Health-Check examination.
- Ensure that the results are sent to International SOS using one of the recommended methods (Drop Box, Online data capture). If the Examining Physician or Medical Provider uses the online Health-Check questionnaire, the results will be automatically sent to International SOS.
