Occupational Health

Rising levels of sickness are taking a toll on many workplaces, research has suggested, with employers reporting increased absence affecting...

The number of working days lost to asthma and respiratory illnesses has soared since the pandemic, with a 153% increase...

Union body the TUC has backed calls to create a national database to map the presence of asbestos in buildings....

Four research projects aiming to reduce health-related economic inactivity and ill-health worklessness are to get a £7m cash injection between...

More than half of employers fail to tell employees of their rights once they become a cancer carer, a survey...

Workers in their forties and fifties are becoming less likely to do regular exercise, so potentially storing up health problems...

More than eight in 10 shift workers report poor mental health, along with seven out of 10 hospitality workers, research has suggested.

Nearly seven in 10 builders have suspected a colleague is seriously depressed yet have felt it was ‘too difficult’ to...

Hybrid workers take fewer sick days, are less stressed, are more able to access regular health check-ups, and report better...

We may be just three months into 2025 but already more than a third of working Britons have experienced burnout,...

Army bomb disposal veterans may have a significantly increased risk of developing bladder cancer compared with the general public, according...

People struggling with breathing difficulties are being forced to make as many as five trips to A&E before bringing their...

Government-backed research is looking at how people living with dementia can be better supported to stay living independently.
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The economy could be boosted by more than 65 million working hours each year if employee assistance programmes (EAPs) were...

If the government is serious about stemming the flow of those suffering with ill health from leaving the labour market,...