Let’s Take it Easy and do More
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 Health in Schoolchildren – We Can’t Ignore it any Longer
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 […]
Lone Working – The Big Questions
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 [...]
Driving Behavioural Change
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 […]
Payback Time
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 […]
Put a Wellness Team Together
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 […]
The Future is Now
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 [...]
Tyre Safety is not a Month-Long Consideration
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 […]
Employers Need to Give More Support to Mental Health
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 […]
Ergonomics Tsunami
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 […]