Access to health-related benefits and insurance is becoming more highlyvalued by staff concerned about job security and the impact of...
Wellbeing
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OH business leaders development course
NHS Plus is to run a strategic development programme for NHS occupational health business leaders... -
The number of people in England giving up smoking fell sharply in the first half of last year, despite a...
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Life expectancy in England is now at its highest ever level, although the country also now has the highest prevalence...
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Kent County Council has launched a ‘virtual gym’ to give its 44,000 staff access to online personalised fitness programmes.
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Health and safety and occupational health (OH) groups across the country had their hard work recognised in January. The Royal...
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Health and safety has moved significantly up the boardroom agenda in the past three years, with more than three-quarters of...
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The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a campaign to highlight the dangers of falls from vehicles – a...
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Richard Preece looks at the lessons OH can learn from recessions of old.
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Unison wins compensation for electrocuted worker
Health workers’ union Unison has won compensation for an employee who was blinded and... -
Scans have no benefit for lower back pain sufferers
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Dr Steven Boorman, the Royal Mail’s director of corporate responsibility, has been appointed to lead the government’s review into the...
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Regular exposure to hospital cleaning products and disinfectants can significantly increase the risks for nurses of developing occupational asthma, latest...
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The government has allocated £13m in funding and renewed its call for organisations to participate in trial ‘Fit for Work’ schemes...
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The CIPD has praised a financial services firm’s attempts to drive down sickness absence this year.Small business National Deposit will...