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Formal links between NVQs and vendor qualifications could ease skills shortages in the computing sector, as a scheme launched this month aims to prove. By Elaine Essery Results of a …
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BP Amoco has signed a massive deal to contract out its HR services. John Robinson looks at how the move could pave the way for others. BP Amoco’s decision to …
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Recent absence statistics do not bode well for local authorities. Despite aiming to lower sickness levels, the figures show the reverse, as Dominique Hammond reports Lambeth is no longer a …
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Employers will no longer be able to rule out job candidates with a history of mental health problems, following a case under the DDA. Construction giant John Laing admitted it …
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This month’s news roundup. Byers voices concern at training past The UK’s history of supporting training is not something to be proud of, Secretary of State for Trade & Industry …
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Our economy is on a cusp more unsettling than anything since the Industrial Revolution. Will Hutton, former editor-in-chief of The Observer, brought home the uncertainties to delegates at last month’s …
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Life Long Learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) are the processes by which professional people, such as nurses, develop and improve their practice for the benefit of their clients. There …
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The ‘disease of the 1990s’, stress, is the focus of Occupational Health’s first resource guide – a regular feature which aims to provide useful information sources, by topic Stress is …
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Elaine Essery looks at renewed efforts by business and education to reach a consensus on closing the skills gap and awards low marks for effort Industry and learning need to …
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A paper describing a project to tackle musculoskeletal injury in a large bakery made Joe Patton, nursing adviser with Rank Hovis McDougall, a highly commended runner-up in this year’s Roche Diagnostics Occupational Health Award
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"Broaden your vision" is the message the profession has given the HSE following the publication of its discussion document on developing an occupational health strategy for the UK. The HSE …
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Since the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974, fatal injury rates for employees have fallen to to a quarter of what they were at the …
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OHprofessionals are reporting an increase in bullying and a distinct lack of action to tackle the problem, according to new research
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Courts give trust go-ahead to name NHS Supplies Authority as co-defendant in latex gloves court case
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Employers must tackle the cultural causes and not just the symptoms of sickness absence, experts have warned following Wandsworth council’s decision to penalise those who take excessive sick leave. "Managing …