newsThe impact of mental health support in the workplace
THIS YEAR’S World Mental Health Day theme, “Mental Health at Work”, is a crucial reminder for organisations to take action to safeguard their workforce’s mental health and wellbeing.
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newsShared approach required to better support workers’ wellbeing
THE LACK of an agreed definition of wellbeing, and no shared way to quantify it or measure interventions to improve it, is holding employers back from supporting workers’ wellbeing better in the face of rapid change, new research highlights.
productBack in Action sets the standard for workplace physical health
Back in Action UK has been awarded the highly coveted Safe, Effective, Quality Occupational Health Service (SEQOHS) accreditation to become the UK’s only independent occupational physiotherapy service provider to be recognised in this way.
blogTime to beat burnout
BEATING BURNOUT starts at the top of your business. Stephen Haynes looks at how we get on top of this global occupational phenomenon.
newsCall 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.
newsMental health struggles of hard hat industry workers uncovered
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.
newsAction needed to tackle long working hours ‘epidemic’
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.
newsWorkplace conflict resolution gaps revealed
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.
newsExperts call for urgent workplace first aid training
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.
newsOver 80% of Londoners affected by construction noise
EIGHT OUT of ten Londoners say they have been impacted by construction noise where they live in the last year, research has revealed.
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