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This month’s news Dust exposure The HSE has published a new guidance package on reducing workers’ exposure to dust in the coating powders industry. It includes a free employee leaflet, …
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In his speech accepting the presidency of The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health, Paul Faupel FIOSH RSP emphasised the increasing importance of cooperation in a working world that has …
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This month’s news Human rights Dr Gulleford also gave a paper on the Human Rights Act. This legislation is creating a great deal of media and public interest but in …
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The Health and Safety Commission has published a consultative document setting out its proposals to reduce the toll of occupational asthma. Up to 3,000 new cases are recorded each year, …
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Employment pilot scheme includes several projects to improve delivery of OH
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This month’s news Tractor deaths study Lap straps on tractors would have prevented at least some of the 27 deaths in the past 10 years among tractor drivers who were …
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A new package from the Royal College of General Practitioners aims to give GPs, practice nurses and practice managers more support to treat and advise patients about occupational health. The …
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Measures include new regulations to harmonise consultation with workers on health and safety issues
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This month’s news Aspirin aspirations New uses for aspirin was the theme of a conference held at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Researchers also reported on a pulmonary …
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More than half of the population would have no idea what to do if somebody nearby were to collapse with a heart attack, according to a survey commissioned by St …
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Secretary of State for Health Alan Milburn announced in mid-December that the first-ever national flu vaccination target had been passed only two months into the Government’s £2.5m publicity campaign. A …
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Mr Stewart Flemming, consultant hand and plastic surgeon at St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford gave a presentation explaining the common types of work-related hand injuries he …
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An enjoyable annual dinner at The Britannia Country House Hotel, Didsbury, Manchester on November 30 was attended by 45 members and guests. Carol Bannister was unable to attend so Jane Ingham, an elected member of the Society of Occupational Health Nurses (SOHN) Policy and Practice Committee, who recently represented SOHN at the Federation of Occupational Health Nurses Congress in Strasbourg, was her very able replacement.
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A nurse has won a prestigious national award for innovation after designing a booklet to help children going into hospital. Heather Self, above, a nurse at Bupa hospital Washington-in-Tyne, won …
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In a new series starting this month we publish an actual professional problem encountered by a reader and suggest some ways of dealing with it. We are asking readers who …