This month’s round-up of occupational health (OH) research looks at workplace asthma, employee burnout and absence self-referral.Â
Occupational asthma
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Karen Coomer, director of KC Business Health and a PhD student in applied psychology, gives an overview of her career...
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Black women working night shifts have an increased risk of developing diabetes, US research has suggested.
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Some GP practices in Sheffield have begun piloting the fitness-to-work assessment side of the new Fit for Work service, the...
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Continuing our series on professions allied to occupational health, Rick Hughes, lead adviser for workplace at the British Association for...
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With some 70 million working days lost each year to mental health issues, according to England’s chief medical officer’s 2014...
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This month’s round-up of recent research in the occupational health sphere includes studies of lifetime shift work exposure, mindfulness and...
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This month in Ask OH, an experienced occupational health (OH) adviser answers questions on the likely impact of the new...
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The Government’s Fit for Work website and telephone advice line was formally launched last December.
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Mental health disorders now account for more than half of all cases reported by occupational physicians, making them the most ...
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Will the new Fit for Work service mean higher absence costs for small firms?
by Chris Weaverby Chris WeaverThe Government’s Fit for Work service, which is being rolled out in 2015, is meant to cut sickness absence costs...
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Healthcare workers continue to be at risk of exposure to blood-borne viruses through occupational sharps injuries, with reported cases increasing, ...
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Occupational health practitioners should always be on the lookout for psychosocial workplace hazards. Noreen Tehrani explains more.
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Dr Carly Atkinson’s literature review of bullying and harassment at work won the inaugural Denis D’Auria prize. This is a...
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Diane Romano-Woodward is president elect of the Association of Occupational Health Nurse Practitioners UK (AOHNP), director of OH provider Sunny...