Guest blog by Adrian Wakeling, Senior Policy Adviser, Acas A billion pounds. Ten billion. Or what about £28.5 billion? There, I’ve got your attention. Conflict costs the UK £28.5 billion a year – or £1,000 for each employee. This includes everything from a disagreement with a colleague or manager…
Long read: In this guest blog, in anticipation of our Perspectives on Long COVID and work Online Summit on 29th March, Lesley Macniven, Long Covid Support campaigner and Employment Working Group Chair and Long Covid Scotland Network Co-Founder, explores the complex emerging issues around work and…
Guest blog by Dr Paul Nicholson OBE and Dr Dil Sen Expert groups have been urging governments to recognise the risk of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and to provide healthcare workers with better respiratory protective equipment (RPE). Our editorial recently published in the SOM’s journal…
Guest blog by Julie Luff, Lead Occupational Health Practitioner, Flintshire County Council It seems so long ago now back in February 2020 when all service heads within my Local Authority (LA) were called by the Chief Executive (CE) to an emergency planning meeting. We were appraised of the latest…
Guest blog by Sandra Morse-Weaver, Occupational Health Manager, Wales & West Utilities I am a reflective thinker. Anyone who knows me will agree that I’ll do my research and balance my arguments before I approach something worthwhile, so when I was asked to write a blog about leadership in…
Guest blog by Deborah Garlick, Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace This year’s International Women’s Day has the theme of #ChooseToChallenge, with the idea being that with challenge comes change. And I am choosing to challenge the notion that menopause affects half the population. It can affect…
Guest blog by Dr Jenny Napier Dr Ivan Ivanov, who leads the World Health Organization (WHO) global programme for Occupational and Workplace Health, gave international SOM members plenty of food for thought in his January webinar. The wonderfully global audience included delegates from India…
Guest blog by Martin Short MCIPD, Defence Intelligence Head of Wellbeing, Diversity and Inclusion In early 2018 Defence Intelligence (DI), a large MoD business unit of around 5000 staff, began a new evidence-based Workplace Wellbeing programme. The core recommendations of the Farmer/Stevenson Review…
Guest blog by Will Jefferson, Founder of Performance Catalyst Ltd. Before I became a coach and created my own company, Performance Catalyst, I was a professional cricketer. I played for the England A team and three professional counties, Essex, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire. It was in my former…
Guest blog by Dr Elaine Wainwright, Bath Spa University a nd Professor Christopher Eccleston, University of Bath. It is important to take a lifespan approach if we want to better support people being meaningfully occupied when they live with ongoing pain. We need to understand more about how early…
Guest blog by Dr Louise Freeman, co-chair Doctors' Support Network The current pandemic has resulted in much discussion around the topic of doctors' mental health and how best to support those working on the healthcare frontline. One would hope that healthcare would define best practice in enabling…
Guest blog by Astrid Palmer MSc RGN ROH SCHPN In late September 2019, a cluster of unusual flu-like cases were reported to the WHO by the Chinese authorities. By the end of December, the phones and email inboxes were hot with calls and messages from senior researchers and clinicians all around the…