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Spelling out the bottom line
Fortunately, most work-related health and safety incidents are on a small
scale, and do not result in serious injury to...
Record pay-out for stress
Council admits liability for psychological damage as travellers' site warden is forced to retire through stress
Counselling may be counter-productive
Routine debriefing of employees following traumatic incidents may not be
effective and may even be counter-productive, a study has found....
Letters
This month’s letters
Not all gain from strict hours control
Janice Gibson (Letters, January) suggests that annualised hours address the...
Inside view would make the difference
We have been surprised to see very little published discussion regarding the
future of OH nursing within the public health...
Document debate airs OH opinion
Occupational nursing within the Government’s public health agenda was the
subject of a day-long workshop in Birmingham last month.
Led...
New breed of nurses enter
The first wave of nurse consultant posts was announced last month by Health
Secretary Alan Milburn.
The 141 posts cover...
Briefing
A round-up of news from the professional journals
Diagnosis danger
Half of practice nurses lack confidence in interpreting spirometry readings,...
Mixed reaction to NHS pay rise
Government's nurse salary sweetener received with scepticism in the occupational health sector
Taking a strong line
As drug and alcohol abuse continues to increase among the UK workforce it still remains tabu, but policies need to be enforced to support employees with problems
Resource Guide: Back pain
Back pain is the single biggest cause of sickness absence in the UK. Between 1996 and 1997 119 million working days were lost at a cost to industry of £6bn. In the region of 60 per cent of adults suffer from back pain every year and 30 per cent are chronic sufferers. The Occupational Health resource guide offers readers a selection of useful contacts surrounding the topic
Stressing the positive
Risk
assessment should not only aim to reduce the occurrence of accidents in the
workplace but also psychological illness in...
Data Protection: Be prepared
The key issue for employers over the new Data Protection Act is forward planning. The new Act is more complex than its forebear and uses new terminology. Mike Hibbs offers a guide to formulating a policy
HR loses direction on its way up
Personnel’s bid for business power is faltering. Until the profession addresses skills shortages among its membership, it will have no...
City urgently needs to update its attitudes
The City stands accused of failing to modernise key aspects of its
employment practices. The focus of the criticism is...
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