The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), working with HSE and Acas, have launched
Category: Sickness absence
Working days lost down by a quarter
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Statistics published today by the Health and Safety Commission (HSC) reveal that the
Better Backs campaign - reducing workplace back injuries
Monday, October 9, 2006
This years Better Backs campaign started today. Building on the success of last year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in partnership
Free Better Backs event - Northamptonshire
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
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
The costs and benefits of active case management and rehabilitation for musculoskeletal disorders - RR493
Thursday, September 28, 2006
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.
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SIM 07/2006/02 - PSP/stress programme 2006-07: health care
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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.
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Research Report RR483 - Survey of tools and resources available to employers to manage, record and monitor sickness absence
Friday, August 4, 2006
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 [...]
MISC743 - Healthy workplace, healthy workforce, better business delivery
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Universities and colleges need healthy and well-motivated workers if they are to
E073:06 - Survey results question difference in public/private sector sick leave
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
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.
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RR469 - Lay conceptualisations of occupational disease
Friday, June 30, 2006
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)
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RR 464 - Identifying and evaluating the social and psychological impact of workplace accidents and ill-health incidents on employees
Friday, June 30, 2006
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.
View RR464 report
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