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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.
Please speak up: encouraging employees to flag up health problems
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 17.10.2007
A whole raft of cultural and organisational barriers mean that too many UK workers are still failing to flag occupational health problems - whether or not they are caused by their jobs - until they can no longer work. Lucie Ponting looks at ways to encourage employees to flag up health problems such as stress or MSDs before they become acute.
Lancashire Constabulary's slash of accident and absence rates
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.10.2006
Earlier this year, Lancashire Constabulary won the Improving Working Lives award, for an overhaul of its approach to health, safety and attendance that cut sickness absence rates by 17% in a single year. It did so under the guidance of Ashley Judd, its occupational health, safety and welfare (OHSW) manager. Louis Wustemann found out how.
An employer's use of a stress risk audit to cut absence
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 01.07.2006
In the last of our series, Sara Bean talks to an employer who is walking the stress risk audit talk and has cut sickness absence by a percentage point
RoSPA Congress 2006
Louis Wustemann | Features | HSW | 01.06.2006
Louis Wustemann reports back from two big fixtures of the health and safety conference season.
The next big challenge
Sara Bean | Features | HSW | 04.03.2006
H&S professionals are shy of tackling health issues, argues Sara Bean, but that is where their next big challenge lies
Back to basics: Good health, good business
Lawrence Waterman | Features | HSW | 01.08.2005
Back to basics: Good health, good business
Returning to work
Tim Humphreys | Features | HSW | 01.06.2005
The value of rehabilitation, a report by Tim Humphreys
The challegning role of the occuaptional health team
Carol Davis | Features | HSW | 01.06.2005
Carol Davis reports on the changing role of the occupational health team
WHASS-up? UK's hidden illness rates
Lucie Ponting | Features | HSW | 01.01.1900
Lucie Ponting reports on a new HSE survey
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