Mental health

The forthcoming ISO 45003 standard focuses on the mental health in ‘health and safety’ and offers timely guidance on how to protect the psychosocial wellbeing of staff.

Employers and staff are faced with the perfect storm of high demands with an unstable outlook.

The pandemic has created what the UN describes as 'a perfect storm' for domestic abuse.

More than half of Britain’s working days lost in 2019/20 were due to mental ill-health.

A new research study into workers’ mental health problems has called on employers to take greater account of an individual’s needs when planning their return to work.

Workplaces have become part of a national conversation on mental health and stress, but the tension between individual interventions and structural change remains.

The World Health Organization has issued a safety charter calling for 5 actions improve healthcare worker safety.

From AI and corporate transparency to mental health at work, IOSH is loud in its calls to revitalise public policy, writes Richard Jones CFIOSH.

Depression, loneliness, fear: the effects of COVID-19 on mental health are still rippling out into the workforce, writes OSH research adviser Christopher Davis, effacing the boundaries between work and personal life. But OSH professionals can help improve resilience.

The theme of this year's #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek is kindness.