Research

The links between “good” work and health and wellbeing and increasing well-recognised, as well as evidenced. As Professor Anne Harriss...

Academics are investigating whether the introduction of “standing consultations” at GPs’ surgeries could improve the health of both GPs and...

Employer-provided education and coaching services can significantly reduce the impact migraine has on the workforce, a study has found.
Pharmaceutical...

Taxi drivers experience the highest exposures to black carbon pollution compared with other professional drivers, such as couriers and truck...

More than two-fifths (43%) of organisations have had staff absent from work for more than four weeks due to ill...

Rise in climate change-led occupational ‘heat stress’ cuts world productivity
The rise in global temperatures resulting from climate change will...

From gaining the confidence to write publicly through to one speaker’s personal struggles with addiction; from effective report writing through...

Major construction projects can help develop “universally high” health management standards throughout the supply chain, a study has concluded.
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Sickness absence rates among waste collection staff could decline if local authorities changed the style of bins they provided households,...

Occupational health practitioners may need to manage and support mental as well as physical consequences following a workplace accident, especially...

EAPs aid positive clinical and workplace outcomes
A study of a Canadian employee assistance programme (EAP) has produced evidence to...

Ahead of the government in July launching its long-awaited consultation into workplace and occupational health, the Society of Occupational Medicine...

There is an opportunity for employers to support their staff to become more active, but they will need to tailor...

Rehabilitating workers undergoing cancer treatment
Designing return-to-work plans in parallel with a returning employee’s ongoing cancer treatment is challenging, according...

The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) has called for a new multi-disciplinary national “Centre for Work and Health” to be...