Wellbeing

Electronics manufacturer Toshiba has won a £30,000 prize to transform its smoking room into a gym.
This week, staff will...

Banning smoking may seem like a good idea, but it could create a toxic cloud of new problems, some predictable, others less so.

The high number of deaths in the farming industry has led to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) developing new...

Pilots have poured scorn on claims by the industry’s em­­ployer group that their shift patterns are safe, after a BBC...

The Commons Public Accounts Committee has accused the Department for Transport (DfT) and its agencies of allowing staff to take an extra 13...

A hospital manager killed herself because of the stress of NHS reforms, an inquest has heard. Morag Wilson, head of...

The TUC has published an employers’ guide to help ensure the safety of migrant workers.

The document, Safety and Migrant Workers, warns...

The smoking ban in England comes into force on 1 July 2007. Julian Yew of Wedlake Bell advises on the implications of the Health Act 2006.

With the smoking ban in English workplaces only days away, the TUC is urging employers not to make life difficult...

How is the imminent smoking ban affecting the HR community? What concerns has it been raising, and what are HR...

The smoking ban has been a hot issue ever since last year’s ruling that England would become smoke-free on 1...

One-quarter of UK employers ignore the health and wellbeing of their workforce because they don’t know how they can help,...

Lower limits on vibration exposure come into force on new equipment introduced from 6 July, designed to protect about two...

The European Union launched a campaign this month called ‘Lighten the Load’, to raise awareness of how to prevent musculoskeletal...

It is middle managers, not workers, who need to be given the most encouragement to make the construction industry a...