Open-plan offices are more likely to create illness among the workforce, mostly by spreading colds and other infections and increasing...
Wellbeing
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Working in waste and recycling is now one of the most dangerous jobs in the UK, the Health and Safety...
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Fatal collisions involving people who drive as part of their jobs cost the UK more than £1.6bn in 2007, latest...
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The leading employment and occupational health lawyer Diana Kloss has been awarded an MBE in the New Year’s Honours list....
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New guidance was issued to GPs in January about how they should prepare for, and what to expect from, a...
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The notion that the UK is rife with a health and safety-based compensation culture is false, with most people who...
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There is still widespread ignorance among the UK population about what constitutes healthy eating, drinking and exercise, according to a...
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Occupational health (OH) departments are being warned they could find themselves at the sharp end of dealing with the emotional...
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Workers who travel frequently on business are being warned to watch out for ‘laptop shoulder’, caused by carrying or working...
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Employees win the right to accrue holiday while on sick leaveThe long-running case of Stringer v HMRC has finally reached...
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More than 40,000 police officers, soldiers, snipers and special agents have been employed to guard the inauguration of Barack Obama...
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Due to the pressures of running the business during the current economic downturn, some of our senior management are becoming...
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Breaches of health and safety law could land directors, managers, officers and other employees with a prison sentence from today,...
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CDM2007, developer of the e-learning portal dedicated to CDM training, has warned construction companies that unless they ensure that their...
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The number one new year’s resolution for senior managers in 2009 is to manage their stress better, according to a...