Manage stress by creating break-out zones.
Collin Burry: How design can improve workplace health
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Natasha Broomfield-Reid: Five ways that HR teams can support workplace mental health and wellbeing
Read the ways in which HR can support workplace mental health.
Employers report rise in employee mental illness
Mental illness among workers is on the increase a survey of employers has discovered. The 2015 Absence Management survey conducted by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) found that heavy workloads, management style and difficult relationships with colleagues were the principle contributing factors to the rise in stress and anxiety levels.
Back pain causing 3 million people to take time off work
Back pain is resulting in three million people taking long-term sick leave from work according to Nuffield Health. Lack of provision and advice in the workplace are the key issues employees say they face.
Neal Stone: Signs of improvement in HSE’s annual statistics report
Neal Stone, Director of Policy and Communications, British Safety Council HSE’s recently published statistics show strong signs of improvement in Great Britain’s workplace health and safety performance in 2010/11. Both the incidence and number of major and reportable workplace injuries fell significantly in 2010/11. Both the injury rates for major injuries and injuries over three…