Continuing professional development

It has been well-documented that the cost of work-related is significant, and rising all the time. As Tholakele Sindisiwe Gcumisa...

What do we know about musculoskeletal disorders and work, and what do we need to know? Karen Walker-Bone looks at...

Menopausal symptoms can affect all older women and some aged below 45, and can pose challenges for individuals and employers...

It can be challenging for an employer to know how best to support an employee living with a mental health...

Effective health surveillance and risk assessment and management are key to preventing and mitigating hand-arm vibration. But occupational health also...

Occupational health practitioners are, rightly, always focused on delivering excellence. But with government reviewing the future shape of OH, Nick...

Environmental management and oversight is not traditionally something considered to be within occupational health’s remit. But environmental management can have...

Older workers with chronic disease
More people will be working with a chronic disease and poorer self-perceived health as working...

October saw the launch of the new Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing. What exactly is it, how will it work...

As our workforce ages and becomes more sedentary, type 2 diabetes is increasingly prevalent. As Soroyo Barnes and Anne Harriss...

Developing a workplace mental health checklist
North American academics have developed a checklist to help line managers recognise changes in...

It is estimated the incurable, inflammatory bowel condition Crohn’s disease affects at least 115,000 people in the UK. Managing it...

As the new academic year gets underway, shock new statistics have revealed that university occupational health courses are down by...

A healthcare provider has recently been fined more than half-a-million pounds because its internal occupational health service was not deemed...

Occupational health can offer a huge variety of career and development routes and opportunities. The Society of Occupational Medicine is...