Heart disease is expensive in both human and economic terms, yet much can be done to help prevent it. The workplace offers tremendous opportunities for education and prevention, where the OH nurse can play a pivotal role
Personnel Today
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Safety reps will be urged to carry out risk assessments to identify and deal with hotspots of work-related stress
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Training professionals who decide to get their personal development in order are finding there is a myriad of qualifications to choose from. Patrick McCurry highlights the benefits of some
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This week’s news in brief
– London-based learning and knowledge management consultancy XOR has
launched an online course in risk... -
Briefing
In-patient
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survey claiming that one in 10 hospital patients picks up an infection has been
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Howard Popeck reviews the online assessment tool Cognisco Series-300
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Senior executives and HR are at odds over how to handle union recognition
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Employees say the impact of learning radiates from the workplace into their personal lives. Stephanie Sparrow and Simon Kent ask training professionals how they feel about this responsibility
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Camden Council’s housing department is using e-learning to train its 1,000
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Sickness absence because of low back pain can be in part the
result of low job satisfaction.
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A new CEO and president, a new vision of its reason for being and a new commitment to educating its members all point to a strikingly new path ahead for the Society for Human Resource Management which has its headquarters in the US. DeeDee Doke looks at what lies ahead
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This month’s news in brief
Lawsuits piling up for supermarket giant
Global retail giant Wal-Mart is facing lawsuits in 28... -
Liz Dean, management development and education consultant with the Abbey National Group, explains why the company chose Impact Development Training Group's business simulation, Simpact, to prepare its graduates for future key positions within the firm
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The Edinburgh branch of Swedish home furnishing chain IKEA is using
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Nearly 80,000 people gave up smoking between April and
December last year, according to latest figures from the Government.
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