Guest blog by Francesca Langton Kendall, Workplace Wellbeing Consultant, Making Moves. Over the past five years awareness of the importance of health and wellbeing has grown rapidly as a primary concern in the design and operation of the office environment. The case for wellness needs to be…
Guest blog by Tom Buckland, Head of Content at Inspire Me Almost everyone who has ever had a job will have a story of a terrible boss, an office screaming match or a woeful tale of stolen credit and fractured teams – but recent research shows that it is not necessary to tough out that difficult boss…
Guest blog by Dr Nick Jenkins, Senior DVLA Doctor Around 48 million people hold a GB driving licence and individuals depend greatly upon their ability to drive for their employment, their day to day lives and socially. There can, however, be confusion amongst clinicians as to the respective roles…
Guest blog by Deborah Garlick Menopause is nothing new. Indeed, it’s a natural part of a woman’s life as she transitions from one phase to the next and her balance of hormones changes. But what is new – thankfully – is the increasing focus that many employers are placing on menopause in the…
Guest blog by Martin Short, Head of Wellbeing, Diversity and Inclusion. MoD Business Unit In July 2018, following an 18-month secondment to the What Works Centre for Wellbeing, I returned to the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to design a wellbeing programme for a large MoD business unit of some 5000…
Guest blog by Dr Kathleen Lin, Occupational Health Specialist Registrar, King’s College Hospital I am now two months into my specialist registrar training in Occupational Medicine. I often get asked about how and why I decided that I wanted to pursue my career in this specialty, and I would like to…
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Guest blog by Mark Hammar, ISO 45001 expert, Advisera In March 2018, ISO 45001 was released by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), becoming the internationally recognized requirements for implementing an Occupational Health & Safety Management System (OHSMS) in the workplace…
Guest blog by Dr Justin Varney MBBS FFPH HonFFOM Interim Strategy & Planning Lead, Business in the Community & National Strategic Advisor, Public Health England On average two women each week in England and Wales are killed by a partner or ex-partner through domestic abuse. 26% of women and 15% of…
The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust has partnered with the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) to produce a leaflet , focused on looking after oneself, written specifically for occupational health professionals. You can download the leaflet here: Looking after your mental wellbeing: A guide for…
Workplace Wellbeing - Theory, Strategy and Application for OH Teams 18th March 2019, 9.30-4.30 Venue: 20 Little Britain, London, EC1A 7DH Join James Rind – Workplace Wellbeing Consultant – for two workshops in one exciting day. In the first (morning) explore what Wellbeing in the workplace really is…
Guest blog from Dr Lucy Wright, Chief Medical Officer Optima Health. I was thinking the other day about mental health issues in the workplace. They make up the majority of the cases I see in clinic these days. Unwell and unhappy people who are not coping in work or in life or in both. Most of the…
The Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM) and the Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) are running the following one-day training course in York: Management of Stress in the Workplace, 4th December 2018 Stress has been recognised by the HSE and many others as one of the biggest single causes of…