This World Mental Health Day (10 October), the UK’s leading health and safety organisations are coming together to address poor mental health at work and are calling on the Government, employers and those responsible for workplace health and safety to ...

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, finds new research undertaken ...

Today marks the start of Occupational Health Awareness Week (OHAW), which aims to raise awareness of occupational health (OH) and explain the value it provides. The week is facilitated by the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM), whose research shows that ...

In the month that the world marks World Suicide Prevention Day, which is hosted on 10 September, national security group, First Response Group (FRG), has joined the Security Consortium for the Prevention of Suicide (SCPS). Founded three years ago, SCPS ...

UV400 is becoming an increasingly common feature of eyewear designed for the outdoors but what is it and why does it matter? Clair Weston, head of marketing at uvex explains more. When it comes to protecting our eyes from the ...

Businesses will be urged to tackle in-work sickness and stop people falling out the workforce, following the appointment of Dame Carol Black as the Government’s new Occupational Health Tsar. Dame Carol, who has decades of experience in medicine and policy ...

The need to support employees and colleagues in managing their mental health is widely recognised, however the wide range of interventions being marketed makes it difficult for employers to know what works. Launched on the back of increased mental health ...

The results of a new study into the impact of ill-health on the UK’s working population have been published by the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM). Following on from Occupational Health Awareness Week (18-24th September), the report ‘Understanding Recent Trends in ...

A ground-breaking report, Uncovering the UK’s Hidden Crisis in Women’s Workplace Health has highlighted the urgent need for measures to protect women from getting ill because of work. Published by the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), a Scientific Charity and ...

Nine of the UK’s most prominent Safety & Health organisations have united to form the Occupational Safety and Health Stakeholder Alliance. It will create a platform to offer a unified 360-degree perspective on critical Safety & Health issues for the first time. The nine organisations ...