Fully funded occupational health and wellbeing training for facilities management line managers is nearing its registration deadline. With 125,000 suppliers in the UK facilities management sector, 93 per cent of which are SMEs with a turnover of under £1m (ONS/IWFM ...

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA), in partnership with Speedy Hire, is bringing together experts and industry leaders to strengthen skills critical to occupational safety and health (OSH) in the UK. The initiative is designed to provide ...

Mitie is the largest facilities management employer to be awarded five stars by the British Safety Council across all its operations, following an in-depth examination under British Safety Council’s 2025 specification, which scores on the maturity of the health and ...

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 ...