Employers and workplace health professionals are urging the government to do more to encourage employers to invest in support for...
Nic Paton

Nic Paton
Nic Paton is consultant editor at Personnel Today. One of the country's foremost workplace health journalists, Nic has written for Personnel Today and Occupational Health & Wellbeing since 2001, and edited the magazine from 2018.
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Companies employing drivers are being warned they need to proactively monitor and risk manage for type 2 diabetes, as those...
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More than a quarter of workers (28%) believe their employer is ineffective at managing workplace stress, according to a poll....
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Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the...
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Rising levels of sickness are taking a toll on many workplaces, research has suggested, with employers reporting increased absence affecting...
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The number of working days lost to asthma and respiratory illnesses has soared since the pandemic, with a 153% increase...
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Union body the TUC has backed calls to create a national database to map the presence of asbestos in buildings....
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Four research projects aiming to reduce health-related economic inactivity and ill-health worklessness are to get a £7m cash injection between...
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Workers who feel confident in their role and abilities are more likely to be good colleagues, ones prepared to go...
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Two-thirds of healthcare workers (62%) are threatening to quit their jobs unless their benefits package is improved, research has warned....
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More than half of employers fail to tell employees of their rights once they become a cancer carer, a survey...
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Workers in their forties and fifties are becoming less likely to do regular exercise, so potentially storing up health problems...
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More than eight in 10 shift workers report poor mental health, along with seven out of 10 hospitality workers, research has suggested.
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Nearly seven in 10 builders have suspected a colleague is seriously depressed yet have felt it was ‘too difficult’ to...
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Hybrid workers take fewer sick days, are less stressed, are more able to access regular health check-ups, and report better...