Musculo-skeletal injuries have, according to official statistics, been decreasing slightly since 2009, but no employer can afford to ignore a problem that is resulting in over 150,000 new cases a...
The Health and Safety Executive has set up an independent panel – the Myth Busters Challenge Panel - to scrutinise decisions which can lead health and safety to become a “convenient excuse to stop...
Although some commentators see ‘resilience’ simply as the latest buzzword for managing stress, in its purest sense it refers to the ability to bounce back from adversity.
Long gone are the days when families got out their holiday brochures on cold January evenings and planned six months ahead for that all-important summer break. As a child, I remember the excitement of...
As much engrained – perhaps by its very identity – in the culture of the UK as death and taxes, the NHS in England, Scotland and Wales – known as Health and Social Care (HSC) in Northern Ireland – is...
More than one million UK workers are ‘sleep drunk’ due to a lack of shut eye, new data of nearly 39,000 employed people from Vielife has shown.
Nine out of 10 employers do not believe the GP fit note is effective, the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP) has found.
As an HR director or business leader, are you drawing any parallels between the Government’s approach to dealing with the problems of binge drinking and the way our organisations attempt to create...
There seems to be no end in sight to the gloomy economic outlook: growth stagnant, unemployment still growing, fear of job losses high and pressure on workers and families building. Business...
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has called for tax breaks to encourage employers to better support workers’ health, ahead of today’s Budget 2012 announcement.
A significant proportion of the UK’s small business bosses are risking burn-out and ill-health as they battle absence to keep businesses afloat, according to health insurer Bupa.
As economic forces put the squeeze on workplaces, sending working hours skywards, western world employees have never been so stressed or sedentary.
