Personnel Today

The government will need to widen its focus beyond traditional occupational health if it wants to build support for its...

Between Brexit, ‘working poverty’ and rising workplace and financial insecurity, it is perhaps little surprise that mental ill health and...

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

It is estimated more than two million workers in the UK are exposed to high levels of vibration as a...

Homeworking is often thought as an easy solution to workplace stress, long hours and exhausting commutes. In fact, apart from...

Some nine months on from its launch, how is the newest organisation within the OH landscape, the Faculty of Occupational...

Three presentations at the Health and Wellbeing at Work conference in March posed intriguing questions about occupational health’s current and...

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

The challenge of work-related stress is now well-recognised by many employers. But how our emotions, the fluctuating emotional interplay with...

In his book Sick-Note Britain, Dr Adrian Massey makes the case for why doctors should be left out of sickness...

Hidradenitis suppurativa is an inflammatory skin disease that causes painful lesions and scarring and which, though rare, can have disabling...

Non-disclosure agreements should not be used to prevent employees from discussing allegations of discrimination and harassment with other staff, while...

Many employers remain woefully ignorant about what occupational health can do, its value (versus its cost) and the benefits it...

A functional assessment is a key part of any occupational health consultation, yet effective history-taking is something many coming into...