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Work-related health services need a radical change
The National Director for Health and Work has proposed "radical" changes to work-related health services, and has called for an urgent and comprehensive reform to create a new approach to health and work in Britain. Dame Carol Black’s report, Working for a Healthier Tomorrow, contains the results of the first ever review to identify what the Government, businesses and the medical pr...
News | 17 Mar 2008
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Men's health: an employer's duty to promote?
...p to tackle health inequalities and contribute to the wider choice, greater flexibility and patient-centred delivery that are the central objectives of current national health policy". Dame Carol Black review of the health of the working population, published in March, proposed "radical" changes to work-related health services, and . called for an urgent and comprehensive reform to create a new approach to health and work in Britain. The review's recommendations tie closely in with the aims of National Men's Health Week: The Government should work with employers and representative bodies to develop a robu...
News | 9 Jun 2008
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It’s a WRAP
...l now consider carefully this judgment and what it means for them." Changes aim for swifter justice over workplace deaths Jan Burgess, CMS Cameron McKenna More health and safety prosecutions will take place before Inquest after changes to a key agreement between those who investigate and prosecute work-related deaths in England and Wales came into effect. The alterations to the WorkRelated Deaths Protocol (WRDP), which took effect on 1 October 2011, should mean that some prosecutions will see a quicker resolution. Prior to this, only in exceptional circumstances would a case be taken before an Inquest by...
Magazine issue | 2 Nov 2011
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A new age?
...77 8882 Email: sara.bean@workplacelaw.net 5 Please recycle this magazine when you have finished with it. www.workplacelaw.net Latest | Legal calendar Legal calendar Important diary dates for the months ahead... SEPTEMBER 2011 Under new reporting arrangements, from 12 September 2011, reportable work-related injuries and incidents under RIDDOR will move to a predominantly online system, through a suite of seven forms on the HSE's website. 33984 OCTOBER 2011 The Agency Workers Regulations 2010 come into force on 1 October 2011. The Regulations implement the EU Agency Workers Directive and will give age...
Magazine issue | 5 Sep 2011
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Call for more radical approach to accident reporting
... mean that injury-related absence would go unreported altogether. If adopted, this change will mean that compliance with RIDDOR, which is currently only about 50%, will decline further.” RoSPA proposes that the duty to notify the HSE should be restricted to fatal and major injuries, cases of work-related ill health on the 'notifiable' list and incidents on the list of 'dangerous occurrences'. To balance this, it suggests that employers should be required to investigate and keep internal records of all injuries requiring A&E attendance or medical intervention, including injury from work-related road...
News | 21 Apr 2011
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...s, Solicitor Advocate, Bond Pearce LLP dale.collins@bondpearce.com kate Gardner, Business Manager, Health, Safety and Facilities, Workplace Law kate.gardner@workplacelaw.net Latest | Editorial A lightbulb moment for your career? SENSE AND MISCONCEPTION It has been an unprecedented time for major work-related reviews. The most radical is, of course, the Comprehensive Spending Review, which has seen the deepest cuts to public services for decades. The public sector has been hardest hit, with a £81bn total cut in spending which will result in an estimated cut of 490,000 public sector jobs, and will af...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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Changes to Workplace Law Magazine
...dard Producer responsibility Taxation and fiscal measures Waste management Water quality, regulation and efficiency Introduction to Contents In this issue ... Latest 05 EDITORIAL Welcome to the new-look Workplace Law Magazine. 06 LEGAL CALENDAR Key legislative dates taking place in Autumn 2009. HeaLtH aNd safety uPdate 07 NEWS Swine flu contingency plans needed; tackling driver tiredness; danger and delay in Pleural plaques decision. 28 fixed-term worker wins permanent contract. confidential information within the NHS is a massive undertaking, reports Anthony Pearlgood. 22 NetwoRk 34 fORUM fOC...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2009
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Employment law is changing - but don't tell anyone how
...f the Employment Tribunal system that sometimes provide the most outrageous results in case law. Claire Fuller looks at the top ten silliest cases. ChALLENgE 26 REpLACING ThE DISpuTE RESOLuTION pROCEDuRES With the repeal of the ThE dATA 32 ThIS mONTh'S STATISTICS Key statistics and information on health and safety and employment law. FOCUS 10 EmpLOymENT TRIbuNALS ARE ChANGING ... buT DON'T TELL ANyONE www.workplacelaw.net 18 hOW ARE DISpuTES RESOLvED INTERNATIONALLy? Kelly Mansfield speaks to the Labor and Employment "Industry waits with bated breath to see whether the Government will adopt the...
Magazine issue | 13 May 2008
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Healthier tomorrow: could be healthier, says IOSH
Published last month, Dame Carol Black’s review of the health of the working population, Working for a healthier tomorrow, proposed radical changes to work-related health services. While praising the contents of the report, IOSH has called for additional focus on the prevention of work-related illness. Ray Hurst, President of IOSH, says: “Dame Carol’s report shines a much-needed light on the long-standing failure of healthcare and employment support to m...
News | 9 Apr 2008
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Employers critical of GP services
Employers are calling for a radical revamp of the way in which GPs work to help people with mental health problems successfully return to work. The call comes from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), and is based on findings in the latest CIPD / KPMG quarterly Labour Market Outlook report, launched this week.The report finds that GPs are typically rated negatively by employers ...
News | 13 Nov 2007
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Clarity sought over what exactly 'good work' is
Just what is ‘good work’? That is the question that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Minister Lord McKenzie is asking businesses, the Government and charities. Last September the DWP published an independent review Is Work Good for your Health and Well-being? which concluded that 'good work' is beneficial for physical and mental health, boosting self esteem and quality of life. It showed that when people return to work from unemployment their health improves by as much as unemployment damages it. However, there is no widely accepted un...
News | 1 Mar 2007
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Directors' responsibilities for health and safety
workplacela law know-how to manage your workplace february 2005 SHOCK TACTICS Do directors really have anything to fear in new health and safety legislation? MUDDLING THROUGH Managing dyslexia in the workplace WHAT IS `WORK'? Deciphering the boundaries of an employer's duty to protect POWERS OF ENFORCEMENT How effectively does the HSE impose health and safety law? PLUS: COSHH, fire safety legislation, the Road Transport Direc...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2005
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Parental leave shake-up
...orkplaces" sets out its proposals for a new system of shared parental leave. The key proposals are: · 18 weeks' maternity leave The Government proposes that the first 18 weeks of leave will be maternity leave, reserved exclusively for the mother. Its aim is to protect "this important time, and the health needs of new babies and their mothers". It is proposed that this leave would be taken in a continuous block around the time of the baby's birth. · 2 weeks' ordinary paternity leave The Government proposes to retain the existing two weeks of ordinary paternity leave, stating that it believes that f...
News analysis | 25 May 2011
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London’s burning, where’s the engine?
...SUE 21 London's burning, Fire safety law reform: filling in the missing pieces engine? where's the Highly commended: PPA Magazine of the Year 2005 & 2006 interactive business and professional Highly commended: AOP Online Publisher of the Year 2005 - business IN EVERY ISSUE: EMPLOYMENT LAW, HEALTH & SAFETY, PREMISES MANAGEMENT CONTENTS Legal calendar 06 Fire, fire... 08 1 October has been designated as a Common Commencement Date. Check that you are ready for all the events and legal developments coming into force this month. Employers looking for a complete picture of how moves to modernis...
Magazine issue | 1 Oct 2006
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ETs on the rise
...nges of the ageing population. The Workforce Assessment Tool enables HR managers to assess how an ageing workforce will affect their workplace and how to attract and retain talent from all age groups. 29782 Men take more stress days Men are four times more likely than women to phone in sick due to work-related stress. In a survey of 3,000 workers by healthcare cash plan provider, Medicash, 20% of men admitted to taking two sick days in the past month because of stress. Work-induced stress was also found to be causing twice as many men as women to drink more, with one in five men saying they needed to dri...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2010
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2009: new beginnings
...008 an estimated 442,000 individuals in Britain, who worked in the last year, believed that they were experiencing workrelated stress at a level that was making them ill. It is apparent that there are difficult times ahead for many businesses and their employees and we anticipate that the number of work-related stress claims is set to increase further. At the same time many employers underestimate the steps that they need to take if they are to protect their businesses against such claims. In 2002 in the case of Hatton v. Sutherland, to the relief of many employers and insurers, the Court of Appeal gave d...
Magazine issue | 8 Dec 2008
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Government review of Injuries Disablement Benefit announced
... put into payment each year: 76% are from claimants of working age. The review is part of the Government's commitment to help more people move off benefits and back into work. At present IIDB claimants do not automatically have access to support such as Pathways to Work, which helps people with health conditions to return to work, education or training. Jim Murphy said: "The time is right to look at the kind of occupational injury scheme we need for the future. IIDB was introduced in 1948 to serve a specific purpose. The workforce and the labour market have changed radically since then, w...
News | 6 Feb 2007
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Smoking ban special
...the right things to be focussing on? Should employers be planning how to help employees kick the habit once and for all? If so, how do they do this? 32 Clinic Should we let an employee come back to work if they still have a valid medical certificate? 34 Analysis Are employers tackling poor desk health? 25 Should smoking breaks be banned? The issue of smoking breaks has always been a thorny one for employers, and with the introduction of the smoking ban in July it is likely to be an issue that employers are forced to face. workplacelaw 3 workplacelaw MAGAZINE Kelly Mansfield T. 01223 431 05...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2007
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CDM special
...November. The aim of the day is to present a more positive, proactive and manageable approach to stress management. This year's theme for the day is "Smile Away Stress" with the slogan `stop stress -- pass on a smile!' According to HSE figures around half a million people claim to be suffering from work-related stress, making it the second biggest cause of occupational ill health. The average annual days lost per case of stress is 31 days. Under UK law, employers have a legal duty of care to ensure their employees are not harmed by work-related stress. They also have a duty to assess the risk arising from...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2007
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The sex issue
...our workplace MAY 2006 ISSUE 17 Sex discrimination Sexual orientation discrimination HIV/AIDS discrimination Highly commended: PPA Magazine of the Year 2005 interactive business and professional Highly commended: AOP Online Publisher of the Year 2005 - business IN EVERY ISSUE: EMPLOYMENT LAW, HEALTH & SAFETY, PREMISES MANAGEMENT workplacelaw 2 CONTENTS Legal calendar 06 Letters 07 Sex discrimination: 08 an outdated law? Sexual orientation 13 Positive discrimination: are some forms of discrimination better than others? Keep up-to-date on the all the latest legal developments, events and co...
Magazine issue | 1 May 2006
