Mental health and wellbeing

Coronavirus: how to support homeworkers

19 March 2020

Coronavirus

Fresh guidance from the HSE on protecting remote workers during the pandemic

Coronavirus: guidance from IOSH

25 February 2020

News

Organisations must be prepared and plan effectively and explain to employees how they will respond in the event of an outbreak of Coronavirus, IOSH vice-president Tim Eldridge said last week on BBC World News.

Turning the tide

4 February 2020

Features

IOSH-funded research shows how major construction projects like Tideway can improve the management of occupational health risks and help ‘raise the bar’ across the wider sector.

Attitudes towards sleep deprivation

16 January 2020

Opinion

Human beings are the only species that make a conscious decision to miss out on sleep because we don’t see it as being a productive use of our time. If something has to be sacrificed in our hectic lives, it tends to be a good night’s sleep.

The power of conversation

13 January 2020

Features

Empowering and supporting staff that have poor mental health can be a valuable facilitator in keeping them in work, as recent IOSH-funded research revealed

A third of highways sector not tackling mental ill health

17 December 2019

Mental health

Results from the first industry benchmarking exercise against the Thriving at Work Report standards have found that less than two-thirds of businesses in the highways sector are routinely monitoring their workforce’s mental health and wellbeing.

Stress busters

28 October 2019

Stress

The best way to tackle stress is to address cultural issues both at an organisational and national level, writes Claire Saunders CFIOSH.

Linking consumer research with wellbeing and skin care

18 October 2019

Wellbeing

For many manual or maintenance workers, physical health is often closely monitored when it comes to health and safety. Mental health and wellbeing however is an important issue and something that should be taken seriously by both employers and employees. Factors such as job insecurity, isolation, demanding hours and a poor work-life balance are all identified as potentially contributing to poor wellbeing. Shockingly, it was reported last year for example that the risk of suicide is 1.6 times higher than the UK average for those in the construction sector, according to the Office of National…