Health

This webinar will explore how safety and health practitioners help ensure that this new work patterns do not introduce new risks.

An employee who refused to return to work because of Covid safety concerns has lost her discrimination claim after a tribunal decided her fear of catching the virus did not constitute a belief as defined by the Equality Act.

IOSH has urged employers to continually review their OSH measures and ensure they are ‘proportionate and fit for purpose’ after Great Britain's Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) annual figures for work-related ill-health, injury and enforcement highlighted the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on British workers’ health.

Businesses that are considering removing a hybrid working option and bringing workers back to the office full time risk losing more than half of their staff, according to a YouGov survey commissioned by Microsoft UK.

Open-plan office noise increases stress and worsens mood, and it will require a new approach from the profession to tackle it.

The Flemish government in Belgium has taken a risk-based approach to tackling the region’s huge asbestos legacy with an ambitious plan to become ‘asbestos-safe’ by 2040.

As Covid-19 guidance changes once again, we explain how to ensure high water quality in under-occupied workplaces.

UK workers took 5.8 sick days on average in 2020, according to new research.

This episode has been taken over by three IOSH Future Leaders: Alpa Vadher, Adam Gawne and Abdulhanan Cheema. They discuss how to be a good safety influencer, and the new standard for psychosocial risks and how it might impact mental health in the workplace.

A new interactive graphic developed by UK researchers and published by the BMJ will help people decide what to do in everyday situations to protect themselves, and others, from Covid-19.