This month’s round-up of recent occupational health research studies looks at how rates at which patients are signed off work...
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About three million people over the age of 50 in the UK are living with a serious illness, a study...
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This month’s round-up of occupational health research looks at predicted return to work of people absent with common mental health...
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Surveys that have been carefully designed can be used to gauge opinion on particular occupational health (OH) strategies. Andy Phillips...
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This month’s round-up of occupational health (OH) research looks at workplace asthma, employee burnout and absence self-referral.
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Black women working night shifts have an increased risk of developing diabetes, US research has suggested.
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The NHS, Britain’s welfare system and employers all need to be doing more to support and better manage people trying...
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This month’s round-up of recent research in the occupational health sphere includes studies of lifetime shift work exposure, mindfulness and...
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Dr Carly Atkinson’s literature review of bullying and harassment at work won the inaugural Denis D’Auria prize. This is a...
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Line managers have key role supporting staff with musculoskeletal disorders
by Kate Summersby Kate SummersLine managers are not expected to be rheumatologists, but as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) were the leading cause of sickness absence...
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This month’s look at recent occupational health research papers covers work stress and heart disease, shift work and cognition and...
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Occupational health nurses could have their own faculty of OH nursing within the next 18 months to two years, if...
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Workers are becoming increasingly “nomadic” in where they work thanks to the availability of mobile technology. But employers are not...
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This month’s look at recent occupational health research papers covers: stress; “sharps” injuries; the risks of working with asbestos; and...
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Food workers handling shiitake mushrooms have a raised risk of developing severe occupational asthma, a study concludes. The asthma attacks identified in the study stopped when