Acas has launched its first guide to tackle the last taboo in business - mental illness at work.
Workplace health and wellbeing do not remain constant. The focus of attention for organisations shifts and changes as technology, working practices and societal expectations and norms develop.
Almost a third of office workers are feeling more stress than they were a year ago, according to a survey of over 1200 by workplace environment consultancy Ambius.
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...
