International Workplace is equipping small businesses with the tools to champion mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. ‘Blue Monday’ – the third Monday in January each year – is often cited as the most challenging day of the year ...

International Workplace in partnership with Reed Learning has been awarded a contract by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to deliver the IOSH Managing Occupational Health and Wellbeing Certificate to line managers in qualifying small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) ...

The British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS), Britain’s Chartered professional and scientific body dedicated to workplace health protection, has expressed its scepticism about the value and impact of the long-awaited Keep Britain Working Final Report, published today. The Keep Britain Working ...

From Amy McKeown for the Society of Occupational Medicine. The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) has released a major report on sickness presenteeism: the act of working while unwell. It’s more common than sickness absence, more costly, and far less ...

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 ...