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For many decades, Personnel Today published Occupational Health journal, which later became the digital subscription service OHW+.

This content is now available free-to-access, and we continue to cover Occupational Health and Wellbeing news and analysis on a regular basis.

All the latest OH articles are listed below.


    • CIPD
    • Occupational Health
    • Latest News

    Employers need to step up on wellbeing provision, says OH body

    by Jo Faragher 10 Sep 2025
    by Jo Faragher 10 Sep 2025

    There needs to be a ‘step-change’ in how employers manage and prevent employee sickness, according to the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM).

    • Conditions
    • Occupational Health
    • Health surveillance

    Managing risk assessments for employees who are deaf or have hearing loss

    by Dan Morgan-Williams 9 Sep 2025
    by Dan Morgan-Williams 9 Sep 2025

    Risk assessments for employees who are deaf or have hearing loss may not always be straightforward. But, writes Dan Morgan-Williams,...

    • CIPD
    • Occupational Health
    • Latest News

    Sickness absence soars to nearly two weeks per head in 2025

    by Rob Moss 9 Sep 2025
    by Rob Moss 9 Sep 2025

    Average UK employee takes 9.4 days' sickness absence in 2025, a record high and a 62% increase on pre-pandemic levels, according to CIPD.

    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses
    • Labour market

    Jobcentres more about benefits than work, say MPs

    by Nic Paton 8 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 8 Sep 2025

    Rather than places where people are helped to find work, Jobcentres have “become centres for monitoring compliance with benefit conditions”,...

    • Cancer
    • Occupational Health
    • Disability

    Director with cancer treated unfairly over pay, rules tribunal

    by Nic Paton 5 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 5 Sep 2025

    A finance and IT director who was diagnosed with cancer experienced harassment when he was denied a pay increase and...

    • Fit for Work
    • Local authorities
    • Latest News

    Connect to Work scheme to benefit 15 areas with £338m funding

    by Rob Moss 4 Sep 2025
    by Rob Moss 4 Sep 2025

    DWP announces funding for Connect to Work to deliver tailored support to over 85,000 people in 15 areas of England.

    • Research
    • Occupational Health
    • Sickness absence

    Working with pesticides linked to higher risk of respiratory illness

    by Nic Paton 4 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 4 Sep 2025

    People working with pesticides can be at higher risk of respiratory illnesses, and this may often go undiagnosed, research has...

    • Fit for Work
    • Health and safety
    • Mental health

    Third of employees ‘anxious’ about lack of workplace first aiders

    by Nic Paton 3 Sep 2025
    by Nic Paton 3 Sep 2025

    A third of employees (34%) feel anxious about having a lack of trained first aiders in their workplace, according to...

    • Mental health
    • Latest News
    • Wellbeing and health promotion

    Personnel Today Awards 2025 shortlist: Health and wellbeing

    by Adam McCulloch 2 Sep 2025
    by Adam McCulloch 2 Sep 2025

    We profile the work done by all our finalists in the Personnel Today Awards 2025 health and wellbeing category.

    • Ergonomics
    • Latest News
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    Work smart – stay well: Avoid unnecessary pain with centred ergonomics

    by Mousetrapper 27 Aug 2025
    by Mousetrapper 27 Aug 2025

    If you often notice stiffness in your shoulders or neck during the workday, it’s not just “part of the job”...

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Disability discrimination
    • Latest News

    Reasonable adjustment failures for epilepsy lead to £445k payout

    by Rob Moss 21 Aug 2025
    by Rob Moss 21 Aug 2025

    Former prison officer awarded £445k after unfair dismissal and failure to make reasonable adjustments for his epilepsy.

    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Stress
    • Police

    Police Scotland constable who can’t work in cold weather awarded £43k

    by Rob Moss 15 Aug 2025
    by Rob Moss 15 Aug 2025

    Police constable awarded £43,100 after she was found to have been victimised by her boss over her inability to work in cold weather.

    • Stress
    • Reasonable adjustments
    • Anxiety

    BA crew member too anxious to fly wins discrimination claim

    by Rob Moss 13 Aug 2025
    by Rob Moss 13 Aug 2025

    British Airways crew member with 40 years’ service wins disability discrimination claim after stress and anxiety made her unable to fly.

    • NHS
    • Health and safety
    • Mental health

    Violence against A&E staff has doubled, warns RCN

    by Nic Paton 12 Aug 2025
    by Nic Paton 12 Aug 2025

    Staff in accident and emergency departments are being exposed to punching, spitting and acid attack threats, among a range of...

    • Fit for Work
    • Age
    • Coronavirus

    Reform fit notes to recover falling over-50s employment

    by Rob Moss 11 Aug 2025
    by Rob Moss 11 Aug 2025

    Number of out-of-work benefit claimants aged over 50 rises by 600,000 in five years, according to CSJ analysis of employment data.

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