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.
Extreme weather is not only a physical and infrastructure risk to organisations, but a mental health one too, research has...
NHS workers who suffer from poor mental health, are over 50 or are from a minority ethnic background are more likely to be considering leaving.
With burnout, stress and anxiety surging in many workplaces, Mike Hay outlines five practical ways that employers can help.
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Government unveils biggest reforms to employment support for a generation with the publication of its Get Britain Working white paper.
If employers – and occupational health – are serious about wanting to tackle ill health-related worklessness among young people, they...
Half of UK workers report having to work more hours than they are contracted or expected, the highest rate in Europe.
More than a third of chartered accountants (36%) say they have suffered from insomnia or disrupted sleep over the past...
More than two-thirds (68%) of UK workers do not know if their employer offers acccess to an employee assistance programme...
Nearly three-quarters of Scots (72%) feel there is a problem with stigmatisation of severe mental illness in the country, research...
The government has emphasised the links between ‘good’ work and good health as it prepares to publish a white paper...
Work-related illness among women is facing a worsening crisis and continues to be inadequately addressed, employers have been warned.
The...
BNP Paribas signs a new agreement with international trade union federation UNI Global Union which strengthens the rights of its employees.
Providing expert psychological interventions, such as clinical supervision and access to counselling, can make a real difference when it comes...
Education and awareness, interventions and, crucially, tackling stigma around musculoskeletal disorders are all key to improving employee health and productivity...
A student police officer who took his own life was ‘distressed’ about the prospect of returning to work and had been left waiting for months for an occupational health appointment.
