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.
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.
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.
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.
EMPLOYERS AND workers across the country are invited to join an exclusive LinkedIn Live this Thursday 26 September, to discover how workplace physical and mental first aid could save a life.
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.
