Guest blog by Karina Nielsen, Professor of Work Psychology and Director of the Institute for Work Psychology at the University of Sheffield COVID-19, restructuring, and employee wellbeing and mental health Many organisations are being forced to make difficult decisions around workforce planning as a…
Guest blog by Deborah Garlick, Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace We’ve seen a continued focus on conversations around menopause in the workplace. In some cases, these have taken a different course after lockdown. Menopause isn’t going to go away simply because of COVID-19. It remains a priority…
Guest blog by Dr Jon Spiro Occupational health (OH) services have been much involved in the response to the pandemic, concentrating their efforts in addressing the risks to workers and the mitigation of these. Advice and guidance to individual employees and organisations have played a crucial role…
The Covid-age risk assessment can calculate the risk of an individual developing serious or fatal COVID-19 and can be used to determine if an employee is safe to be at work. Four of the UK’s leading experts in occupational health medicine explain how the tool was developed, in an editorial published…
Guest blog by Tracie Mckelvie, RGN and Specialist Practitioner in Occupational Health Ensuring mental wellbeing can be particularly challenging within the Nursing profession. Nurses are known to promote health and wellbeing to others; they generally aim to “nurse” people back to health, but there is…
SOM advises the tool should only be used with clinical judgement and only the current table at https://alama.org.uk/covid-19-medical-risk-assessment/ should be used. Guest blog by Joanna Stacey-Leeks, Clinical Director, Polridge Health Ltd As government lockdown rules are relaxed to allow workers to…
Guest blog by Gail Henderson, HR Consultant Occupational Health (OH) and Human Resource (HR) practitioners share a common goal of creating an open, honest and high performing workplace, where employee’s health and wellbeing are valued, not just in terms of productivity and return on investment, but…
Guest blog by Kathryn Hinchliff, Senior Practice Advisor at SafeLives For the last two months the message has been clear: Stay At Home. But home is not a safe place for everyone, and that is particularly the case for families experiencing domestic abuse. Some of these families will be your clients…
Guest blog by Dr. Finola Ryan and Dr. Lucia Batty Workers with health conditions considered to make them extremely vulnerable to COVID-19 were advised by the government to observe ‘shielding’ for 12 weeks. Pre-habilitation, or ‘prehab’, is the optimisation of an individual's functional capacity to…
Guest blog by Dr Clare Fernandes During lockdown, in general physical health comprises of exercise, diet and lifestyle, sleep and managing health conditions. Exercise is of particular importance as I think this has been impacted upon the most during the lockdown. There are two main benefits: (i)…
Guest blog by Professor Kim Burton OBE, Lorraine Anderson-Cole and Jennifer Remnant Supporting people back to work is not just about the economy - there are substantial personal and social benefits. These benefits though come from good jobs, jobs that are safe and supportive. COVID-19 is going to…
Guest blog by Dr Noreen Tehrani, Occupational Health Psychologist Organisations face increasing uncertainty and challenges created by the devastating impact of the COVID-19 virus. Attention is now moving to the relaxation of lockdown restrictions, considering what this might look like and what they…