Call to put mental health injuries on par with physical injuries
A LEADING corporate psychologist is spearheading a campaign calling for mental health injuries caused by work-related incidents to be treated with the same import as physical ones.
A LEADING corporate psychologist is spearheading a campaign calling for mental health injuries caused by work-related incidents to be treated with the same import as physical ones.
A STAGGERING 94% of professionals working in the ‘hard hat’ industries have reported major challenges with their mental health, including feelings of stress, anxiety, depression, and loneliness. This is according to new research from hydraulic hose replacement specialist Pirtek UK & Ireland.
HALF THE UK’s workers regularly put in two or more additional hours without pay every week – many of them an hour or more a day – while more than half admit working while feeling too ill to do so, new survey findings reveal.
EIGHT IN 10 (81%) employers feel they are doing enough to prevent and manage bullying and harassment at work, but just over a third of employees (36%) who experienced conflict in the past year feel it has been fully resolved.
EXPERTS HAVE sounded the alarm for more workplaces to urgently invest in first aid training, with new research* finding one in two people (49%) would feel panicked if they came across a health emergency, due to lack of training.
EIGHT OUT of ten Londoners say they have been impacted by construction noise where they live in the last year, research has revealed.
THE NATIONAL Grid has been fined more than £3million after its failures left a father-of-two with life-changing injuries from working on a pylon in South Wales.
IN SUPPORT of World Suicide Prevention Day, IOSH shares guidance on how to discuss this critical issue at work.
NEW RESEARCH by social enterprise MHFA England, among 2,000 UK employees, ahead of World Suicide Prevention Day on 10 September, found most employees are still using inappropriate and outdated language to discuss suicide at work.
THE GOVERNMENT is rolling out a life-saving health check programme to workplaces across the country for the first time. More than 130,000 people across the country will be better protected from diseases such as heart disease, kidney disease and diabetes due to these checks.
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