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Employee counselling: increasing performance

Richard Snowdon | Features | IIRSM Newsletter | 15.08.2008

Employment assistance programmes (EAPs) can reduce an organisation's costs due to employees' work stress and absence and increase workers' efficiency and commitment and overall work performance. Richard Snowdon is the Business Director of RSCPP, a website which offers bespoke EAP solutions. Here he discusses the value that EAPs can bring to both employees and organisations.

Wembley fatality witness loses claim

News | HSP | 01.08.2008

Business Oscars to recognise SME wellbeing initiatives

News | HSP | 04.07.2008

Mental health site launched

News | HSP | 30.05.2008

TUC publishes mental health guide

News | HSP | 16.05.2008

Acas launches wellbeing guide

News | HSP | 26.03.2008

Site specifics: stress

Bridget Leathley | Features | HSW | 10.03.2008

The HSE says 13.8 million working days were lost in 2006/07 due to work stress, depression and anxiety. Citing HSE research from 2001, the TUC estimates the financial impact is around £3.7 billion. The cost now could be even higher. Bridget Leathley signposts the best sites on the web for guidance on tackling work-related stress.

Firm liable for ex-worker's suicide

Prosecutions and Claims | 06.03.2008

Audit throws spotlight on violence

News | HSP | 13.02.2008

£175,000 payout

Prosecutions and Claims | 12.02.2008

All work, no play

News | HSW | 10.01.2008

Mental health toll

News | HSW | 12.12.2007

Lighter regulation questions

News | HSW | 12.12.2007

Using 'body mapping' to flag workers' ill health

Jocelyn Dorrell | Features | HSW | 09.11.2007

The technique of 'body mapping' was developed in the 1970s at Nottingham University to encourage workers to report ill-health symptoms. The employee-centred approach aids locating workplace health hazards and flagging up workers' health problems, especially musculoskeletal disorders, as Jocelyn Dorrell reports.

Safeguarding workers abroad

Becky Allen | Features | HSW | 08.11.2007

Business travel is an integral part of many Britons' jobs. Despite huge advances in information and communications technology, UK residents made more than nine million journeys abroad for work last year - up 12% since 2004. But what toll does it take on their health and safety and how can the risks be best managed? Becky Allen reports.

Supporting victims of workplace violence

Brian Edwards | Features | HSW | 15.10.2007

Many line managers and supervisors often lack the skills to help support and rehabilitate employees who become victims of violence or aggression in the workplace. Brian Edwards of Maybo explains why line managers have a pivotal role in providing support to victims who experience violent incidents at work.

Stress/depression link

News | HSW | 15.09.2007

Mental health problems and MSDs top absence risk league

News | HSW | 12.08.2007

Just another hazard

Oliver Brennan | Features | HSW | 01.06.2007

People who continually verbally abuse, threaten, humiliate and denigrate colleagues, causing them unreasonable stress, are themselves hazards and, as such, are harmful to the health and safety of people unfortunate enough to have to work with them. Oliver Brennan says that you should apply the same risk management techniques to workplace bullies that you would to any inanimate hazard.

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