Wellbeing

Your staff are what they eat. So why are you still serving biscuits at meetings,asks Sally O'Reilly?

Union leaders have called for an urgent meeting with Royal Mail after claiming that managers were at “breaking point” because of stress caused by overwork

RCN Work is good for you 7-8 June 2006; The Safe and Diverse Workplace, Association of Occupational Health Nurse Practitioners - 16 May 2006; Health at Work Congress 2006, Commercial Occupational Health Providers Association - 23-24 May 2006; Federation of Occupational Health Nurses Within the European Union, FOHNEU - 6-8 April 2006

Screen test: a recent study into the value of pre-employment health screening supports previous research showing that the practice is not an effective use of OH resources. By Carol Hargreaves

New health screening developments, particularly for resporatory illness, mean thos responsible for workers' health need to update their approach, and question the basis for current practice. Paul Nicholson reports.

Real evidence to prove the effectiveness of such arrangements is hard to come by.

OH advisers should share responsibility for absence management with HR and line managers, and educate them to take over much of the responsibility, argues Mary McFadzean.

Three separate studies have revealed the extent to which binge- and over-drinking, largely caused by stress and pressure at work, is blighting British workplaces

More employees are exposed to the risk of skin disease than is commonly understood, but there are simple procedures to detect the problem early on, says Chris Packham

A major survey of UK employers has made a clear link between investment in occupational health provision and reduced rates...

 UK employers under-estimate the extent to which their workers and managers are suffering from stress, anxiety, depression and other forms...

White collar workers performing to tight deadlines and with poor support are susceptible to hypertension

Derby Hospitals NHS Trust is planning to tackle sickness absence by getting privately contracted nurses to telephone sick staff on their first day of absence to offer advice.

The government is to rush through legislation to help cancer sufferers get full compensation from a negligent employer – even...

Company condemned for failing to monitor hours worked by staff.