Wellbeing

A six-foot-seven man is locked in a legal battle with his employer over whether his back injury was caused by...

Seven out of 10 UK employees think personal issues are much more stressful than work pressures, a survey has revealed....

The biggest problem facing UK workplaces is still stress, according to research, and the most common triggers for rising stress...

Q I am required to provide Bradford Factor reports [a way of measuring sickness absence that concentrates on instances of...

Recent research showed that more than eight out of 10 staff (or 84%, if you’d rather) are ‘pulling sickies’. In...

Q Would an employee who booked a holiday and was then off sick during that holiday (covered under a self-certification...

I’m not surprised that employers are up in arms about comments that they are ignoring the mental health issues of...

What impact do lighting conditions have on workplace productivity? Sally O'Reilly investigates.

Nearly half of all employers will have to change their smoking policies to comply with the new law coming into...

Call me narrow-minded, but I think that people with mental health problems present real difficulties for employers. I was, therefore,...

Businesses are still failing their staff when it comes to managing working at heights, according to statistics from Norwich Union....

A quarter of sick days can be attributed to work-related stress, a survey by HR consultancy Ceridian showed.
The poll...

The government has again hinted at introducing incentives to encourage employers to offer occupational health (OH) services to staff. Speaking...

I was interested to read in your Weekly Dilemma column (Personnel Today, 12 September) about the most appropriate way to train...

The TUC has published a report aimed at busting the most common health and safety ‘myths’.
To coincide with European Health and...