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.
As businesses tentatively begin to think about Covid ‘recovery’ from the autumn onwards, occupational health could have a pivotal role...
An NHS receptionist who lost her job after telling her employer she was scared of working in a public-facing role...
Now is the time for practitioners to be proactively promoting their expertise to employers who have not yet ‘got it’ about OH.
With the UK’s journey out of the Covid-19 pandemic increasingly appearing to be a race between vaccination and variants, how...
Fears over staff burnout have led dating app company Bumble to close its offices this week to allow staff some free time.
As we begin to look beyond the pandemic, it is going to be more important than ever that HR and...
A coalition of charities has written a letter to employers to urge them to put protective measures in place for...
Study finds 55% of ‘deskless’ workers have gone into work while unwell because they could not afford to take time off.
The average employee called in sick four times in 2020 – almost double the number of sick days taken in 2019.
Craft beer company BrewDog has been accused of toxic employment practices in an open letter from former employees.
Almost three-quarters of people working in the hospitality sector have struggled with their mental health over the course of the pandemic.
Health authorities should publish transparent accounts of staff shortages to help address resourcing problems, MPs have said.
Matt Sinnott shares how Lloyds Banking Group will combine remote working with attending the office...
Tribunal finds a manager treated an employee with a disability unfavourably, despite knowing about her mental health conditions.
These extra CPD activities relate to ‘CPD: managing stress and psychosocial risk within oil and gas’.
