Health and safety requires a long-term approach that sometimes conflicts with the short-term needs of both employer and employee. Stefan Imjker thinks he has the answer A recent survey of […]

Back pain in pupils is a growing problem, says Lorna Taylor, and the time to act is now. Studies show 72 per cent of primary and 64 per cent of […]

Employers with responsibility for lone workers need to ask themselves some important questions. Nicole Vasquez takes us through them. Q: Have you clearly identified all those employees that lone [...]

Compelling case study results help Colin Hartley of JGCH make the case for telemetry How many of us actually consider driving to be part of our normal day-to-day working regime?  After […]

You can predict how soon a good ergonomics programme will pay for itself. As Keith Osborne explains, after that it’s all profit. You know that the impact ergonomics has on […]

One person can champion health and well-being at work but with a wellness team behind them they can make it happen. Judi Ulrey explains how. Let’s start by considering the […]

Not to be confused with teleporting, the telecommuting age has arrived. Jon Paulsen looks at the opportunities and challenges of working from home. Telecommuting, once exotic and unusual, looks [...]

Safety campaigns are all well and good, writes Martyn Moore, but we need to turn them into habits. OCTOBER was tyre safety month in the UK. American readers, you had […]

Poppy Jaman explains why mental health is a growing issue for employers and describes how one big organisation is doing something about it. One in six UK employees will experience […]

The risk to young people from their inappropriate use of technology is huge, as Nigel Heaton and Guy Osmond explain. We believe society faces an ergonomics challenge that has the […]