Personnel Today

The future direction of occupational health was a central talking point – and the subject of a keynote panel discussion...

Angus Baskerville was diagnosed with Asperger’s and ADHD at the age of 15. He told the audience at last year’s...

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

Encouraging better health is not just good for individual employees, it also makes them – and their organisations – more...

NHS England’s announcement of a new mental health support scheme for doctors has put the pressures faced by health professionals...

Technology is transforming both our work and leisure lives, bringing opportunities but also risks, predominantly around precarious working, “always on”...

Work-related stress, depression or anxiety accounts for a staggering 40% of work-related ill-health and 49% of working days lost, before...

Occupational mental health cases are normally not emergencies. Yet, supporting management and HR to adopt a triage approach to initial...

An NHS England consultation on how to spend extra funding announced by the government last summer has cast a spotlight...

Measles immunity in healthcare workers
Healthcare workers have an increased exposure risk to measles, potentially putting them, their patients and...

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

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) last week signalled that it was considering the reintroduction of fees for employment tribunal claims....

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