Work can have a significant impact on people’s mental health. Employers can help to foster a mentally healthy workplace, for example by taking action to prevent and manage stress and training line managers on mental wellbeing.
There has been a lot of focus on healthy home working. But what about mental health for those managing chronic pain from home?
It is important to recognise that it is implausible to obtain a state of being ‘burnt out’ without also being significantly resilient.
The impact of furlough, shielding, home working and sickness absence because of Covid-19 itself have, unsurprisingly, dominated the health and...
Ama Afrifa-Tchie outlines five areas where OH leadership can help put mental health on the return-to-work agenda.
Corporate fitness teams might not be the most obvious candidates for mental health and wellbeing training. But, as Brendan Street...
Many employees remain deeply fearful and anxious about the prospect of returning to physical workplaces once Covid-19 restrictions begin to...
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The fact Covid-19 can cause anything from short-term illness through to longer term hospitalisation and even months of ‘long Covid’...
Occupational health practitioners will have a pivotal role to play in helping employers navigate any return to physical working this summer.
Occupational health needs to grab the reins and provide leadership to join up mental health support, argues Dr Tarun Gupta.
As we look towards the summer and, hopefully, the gradual reopening of workplaces, managing employee mental health is going to...
Like for most employers, the Covid-19 pandemic has posed a range of operational and HR challenges for Yorkshire Water over...
Continuing our series unpicking a ‘day in the life’ of OH practitioners both pre and post Covid, we spoke to...
Obesity was a growing problem even before the pandemic, but the links between being overweight and poorer outcomes from a...
How managers can gain a better understanding of the unique mental health challenges that may be faced by ethnic minority employees
