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We have teamed up with Welbot, an innovative, workplace wellbeing platform designed to improve employee health and wellness in the workplace.  In the second part of our series, Welbot discusses [...]

Our businesses are literally built on the backs of our workers. Understand employer responsibilities when it comes to back pain at work. Backcare Awareness week offers the health and safety [...]

Here’s a breakdown of the responsibilities and obligations of all those involved in the workforce when it comes to stress-related illness The total number of cases of work-related stress, [...]

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 [...]

More and more organisations are sending staff on International travel, a trend that is expected to continue to increase. In sending staff abroad employers continue to have a duty of care for [...]

The European Court of Justice has made a ruling  that states that time spent travelling to and from first and last appointments by workers without a fixed place of work counts as ‘working time’. [...]

Many organisations now operate globally or send their UK staff overseas. This is an area that for some remains unclear as to the health and safety responsibilities of the organisation. Many [...]

A driver’s handbook is great, up to a point, but a manager’s handbook can fill a lot of the gaps, according to lawyer Jason Stevens. Sadly, road casualty figures rose dramatically in 2014. There [...]

Driving at work is one of the most dangerous things you ask your employees to do. As an employer, you have a duty of care towards your employees and the public road traffic law. Many other health [...]

The study, conducted for Specsavers, surveyed 138 directors with an HR or health and safety remit in companies of varying size, from SMEs to those employing 10,000 plus staff in both the public [...]