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21 September 2020The current HSE (Health and Safety Executive) guidance outlining when employers should report work related COVID-19 may miss many thousands of cases and should be widened, according to a...
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18 September 2020
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...
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09 September 2020
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...
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02 September 2020
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...
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18 August 2020
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...
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16 July 2020
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”...
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16 July 2020Current working conditions experienced by nurses and midwives pose a significant threat to their mental health, finds a new report from The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM), commissioned, and funded by the RCN Foundation. The report, “The Mental Health and Wellbeing of Nurses and Midwives in the United Kingdom”...
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24 June 2020The Society of Occupational Medicine today welcomed its first nurse President, Professor Anne Harriss.
Professor Anne Harriss succeeds Dr Will Ponsonby as President at the SOM AGM, today. This follows a year as President Elect. Professor...
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18 June 2020Swift action is needed in the light of the COVID-19 crisis to ensure the UK population has access to occupational health (OH) advice and assessment. There is an opportunity now to positively influence the health and wellbeing of the working population and the prosperity of the UK....
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Title: Covid-age online toolkit17 June 2020
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.
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