Musculoskeletal disorders
Back Care Week set to inspire
Annual event sees launch of projects to raise awareness on the prevention and treatment of backpain
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Breath of fresh air
The Health & Safety Executive has produced guidance on ventilation to
help employers...
Inflexible councils lose staff early
Local authorities’ lack of flexibility is pushing staff into taking early retirement.Research published this week shows that of those retiring...
Handle with care
In handling sickness absence, practitioners need to be watchful of the Disability Discrimination Act
Driving the message home
Employers have been slow to recognise driving as a major risk factor to staff. But with shocking new statistics, practitioners are being forced to sit up and take notice
Back therapy breakthrough
Back-to-basic
treatments for musculoskeletal problems hailed as answer to poor success rates
in area
A
new generation of treatments for...
Home-made healthcare
How do you provide healthcare to 21,000 staff spread over 70 UK sites? If you're Rank Hovis MacDougall you establish a nationwide network of home-based advisers
High expectations
Ensuring pregnant staff and new mothers are comfortable and safe in the workplace is an important part of an OH practitioner's job, but what should a risk assessment cover?
Risk inflation
The rising compensation awards in both physical and psychological injury cases underlines the importance of risk assessment, with the onus on the OH department
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Workplace accidents
Employers will have a single address, telephone number, fax or web site for
reporting workplace...
Stressing the positive
Risk
assessment should not only aim to reduce the occurrence of accidents in the
workplace but also psychological illness in...
Sick note returns to public sector
Recent absence statistics do not bode well for local authorities. Despite
aiming to lower sickness levels, the figures show the...
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Safety study
Occupational accident investigations need to be led by line managers rather
than safety professionals if...
Recipe for health
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
Learning for life: musculoskeletal injury
Life Long Learning and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) are the
processes by which professional people, such as nurses, develop and...
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