Stress

Employers need to recognise the risks of loneliness and isolation in our newly socially and physically distanced workplaces as well...

Employers must put a greater emphasis on meeting individual needs when planning an employees’ return to work following mental illness....

Because of closer relationships with their employees, small firms are in an ideal position to spot if and when somebody...

More than a third (36%) of small business owners say keeping their staff safe during the pandemic is a concern,...

On World Suicide Prevention Day, Louise Kitchingham looks at the issue of toxic masculinity and why it is often a...

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, nurses and midwives were reporting high levels of work-related stress, burnout and mental ill health....

Occupational health practitioners were stressed, overworked and exhausted even before the coronavirus pandemic, a SOM survey has concluded. Nic Paton...

While many make a relatively swift recovery from Covid-19, for others, especially those who have been hospitalised, it is increasingly...

With both the government and employers now firmly focused on encouraging workers out of home-working and back into physical workplaces,...

The intense stresses and strains of dealing with the coronavirus pandemic sparked the highest rates of sickness absence among NHS...

Expert suggests training may remove mental health stigma.

Swift action to address the mental health crisis exacerbated by Covid-19 has been urged, after figures reveal almost one in five adults are likely to be depressed.

Fifteen per cent of employees think workplace health and safety will be “taken to the extreme” because of Covid-19.
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Nearly half (47%) of managers think their employees are at risk of burnout following changes to their work patterns because...

As work slowly returns to something resembling normality post-pandemic, occupational health will have an important role to play in encouraging...