Sickness absence management

The cost-of-living crisis is making it more difficult for women to manage the menopause, with nearly two in five feeling...

A rising tide of employee mental and emotional ill health is threatening to overwhelm employee assistance programme providers.

Employers are failing to do enough to support employee mental ill health, especially as the cost of living crisis bites.

Settlements for workplace injury and disease have halved, despite a sharp increase in work-related ill health.

Suicide is an uncomfortable and emotive topic, but an important one for occupational health to understand.

Nurses are skipping meals to feed and clothe their children, and staff are finding it hard to make the journey...

New ONS figures in September 2022 show a significant proportion of over-50s are leaving work because of ill health.

The cost of living crisis is causing more asthma attacks as people cut back on heating their homes and using their inhalers.

Sickness absence among bus and rail workers has increased 42% since 2019.

How can employers get men to open up about urological health concerns and better support their needs?

A local council in Wales has been urged to improve its sickness absence levels after recording what has been described as a “shocking” absence rate.

This year, the change of seasons will bring about even more employee wellbeing issues than usual, fuelled by the cost...

The government has outlined a ‘plan for patients’ to help tackle NHS backlogs, but there is no mention of the role occupational health could play.

The HSE is launching a wearables-based research project to better understand Covid-19 transmission by studying physical interactions at work.

Employers need to support mental health first aiders as they themselves are not immune to the stresses and pressures that can come with the role.