Leathley, Bridget | Features | Health and Safety at Work magazine
Published: 12.02.2009
Bridget Leathley highlights the most useful websites for guidance on reasonable adjustments for workers with mental health conditions.
Free wellbeing events announced
Organisations wishing to find out more about the government's Health, Work and Wellbeing programme ...
HSE updates stress analysis tool
The HSE has made various improvements to its stress analysis tool for employers, including new ...
Work capability assessments launched
A new benefits system for sick and disabled people, which will see incapacity benefit replaced with ...
Stress casts "gloomy shadow" over workplaces, finds TUC
Stress is still safety reps' biggest workplace concern and could become a greater problem as the ...
Wembley fatality witness loses claim
A man who suffered post-traumatic stress after he saw his workmate die in an accident during ...
Published: 12.02.2009
Bridget Leathley highlights the most useful websites for guidance on reasonable adjustments for ...
Published: 01.09.2008
Stress takes a multitude of forms and affects people in different ways. In the second of a two-part ...
Employee counselling: increasing performance
Published: 15.08.2008
Employment assistance programmes (EAPs) can reduce an organisation's costs due to employees' work ...
Published: 10.03.2008
The HSE says 13.8 million working days were lost in 2006/07 due to work stress, depression and ...
Using 'body mapping' to flag workers' ill health
Published: 09.11.2007
The technique of 'body mapping' was developed in the 1970s at Nottingham University to encourage ...
Firm liable for ex-worker's suicide
The Law Lords have held that an employer is liable for compensation after an ex-employee committed ...
The Unite union has secured a £175,000 compensation payment from the employer of a member who ...
EAT takes firm line on stress dismissal
The fact that an employer has caused a worker's stress-related condition does not necessarily mean ...
The High Court has awarded a former City worker who was bullied by her colleagues £817,000 in ...
Stressed VAT manager wins £138,000 compensation
HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has agreed to pay £138,000 to an ex-employee who claimed his ...
Disability Discrimination Act 2005
www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2005/20050013.ht ...
Health and Safety at Work, etc Act 1974
www.hse.gov.uk/legislation/hswa.pdf ...
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