COVID-19

Employment groups have called on employers to work proactively with employees who are suffering from the long-term effects of coronavirus and make reasonable adjustments so individuals can be better supported to stay in or return to work.

In this exclusive interview, IOSH magazine’s former editor Nick Warburton speaks with Professor Dame Carol Black about the importance of giving occupational health a strategic leadership role after it provided an invaluable service supporting business and organisational operations during the pandemic.

Employers are not doing enough to support the transition to a hybrid work model, according to Deloitte’s second Women at Work survey, which found that respondents experience a lack of flexibility and are feeling excluded

In this exclusive interview, IOSH magazine's former editor Nick Warburton sits down with Professor Dame Carol Black, to talk about the value of occupational health services and emerging issues that will require our attention as we return to the new normal.

The huge mental health consequences of the pandemic will continue to affect workplaces as we move into an endemic phase. How are organisations and OSH professionals tackling the mental health crisis?

The TUC and Covid Bereaved Families for Justice have today – on Workers’ Memorial Day – called for the public inquiry into Coronavirus to focus on what could have been done to prevent worker deaths.

After a German man who fell down the stairs on the ‘commute’ to his home office is allowed to claim insurance, Louise Bland, partner in the corporate claims team at Eversheds Sutherland, asks what this means for UK employers’ duty of care to their workforce.

A care home worker who joked about reporting his employer to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) for not enforcing the wearing of facemasks at the height of the pandemic has won his claim for constructive unfair dismissal.

Young people and women have been worst hit by anxiety and depression since the pandemic, according to a study by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Sainsbury’s has been fined £1 million after measures taken during the Covid pandemic to help organise orderly queueing at the company’s Newbury store left a customer facing life-changing injuries.