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Don’t mix it!
Thursday, January 4th, 2007
A guide for employers on alcohol at work. This guides will help small and medium-sized businesses deal Read on…
A guide for employers on alcohol at work. This guides will help small and medium-sized businesses deal Read on…
The NHS Plus website has published new guidance for employers and employees on chronic fatigue Read on…
Non-Specific Symptoms (NSS) are symptoms that are not related to any given disease and include fatigue, Read on…
In the review of “Managing Sickness Absence in the Public Sector” the Ministerial Task Force for Health Read on…
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), working with HSE and Acas, have launched Read on…
Statistics published today by the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) reveal that the Read on…
This years Better Backs campaign started today. Building on the success of last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in partnership Read on…
HSE and the Local Authorities are raising awareness of risky manual handling, how to reduce it, and how to help people with bad backs get Read on…
This study sought to identify the evidence on cost-effective case management and rehabilitation principles for MSDs that could be applied by employers and healthcare providers to help those with MSDs stay in work or return to work.
This SIM describes the policy and field led activities to promote sickness absence management and return to work strategies across the health care sector in 2006-2007.
This study was established under the Government Setting an Example (now part of the wider Public Services Programme) programme of work set up by the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) as part of their commitment to improving health and safety management in the public sector. The report provides an essential guide to sickness absence recording software applications and services, and also to information sources and other resources for absence management.
Universities and colleges need healthy and well-motivated workers if they are to Read on…
The popular view that public sector workers take more sick leave than their private sector counterparts is misleading says an HSE report. The results of a recent HSE survey suggest that there is evidence of higher rates of employer under-recording of employee absence within the private sector, this being concentrated within smaller businesses.
Objectives People’s beliefs about the causes, treatments, symptoms, and duration etc. of an illness from a model that influences what they define as illness and how they respond to it (treatment seeking, absenteeism)
This research, and the literature review that preceded it, was commissioned by HSE. The review confirmed that there are few studies that have explicitly examined the impact of serious workplace-related injury and ill health on individuals, their families and their immediate social network.