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Work-related staff absenteeism at four-year high
... believed was caused or affected by their job.Commenting on the survey, Laurie McMillan, Workplace Safety Advisor at Health@Work said: “It is worrying to see statistics like this and as a result employers should be looking at ways to buck the trend and reduce the number of absent employees due to work-related factors."Awareness of health and safety practices is paramount and there are a number of factors to be aware of and measures a company can take to ensure it does not become a growing issue.”He continued:“Regular inspections to identify potential hazards are essential and it is important to ensu...
News | 27 Aug 2008
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Should employers educate staff to prevent accidents at home?
Last week, the HSE announced that work-related...
News | 31 Jul 2007
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Old git, or still work fit?
... for their workforce, others still rely on it heavily. The Government consultation also showed that if all employers only had the option of individually justified retirement ages when the age regulations were introduced, there could be adverse consequences for occupational pension schemes and other work-related benefits. Some employers said they would instead simply reduce or remove benefits they offered to employees to offset the increase in costs. `Initially, we thought the Government would say there was no default retirement age,' comments Workplace Law's Lead HR Consultant Jayn Bond. She believes the...
Magazine issue | 1 Feb 2006
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Euromillions
...tance to them whatsoever and hardly any grain of truth. The hSE has spent a lot of time, effort and resources on a recent `myth-busting' campaign but still we are faced by these false reports on a weekly basis." · Morethan1,600people die in incidents at work each year; and · 50,000peoplediedue to work-related diseases, up to a third of which are forms of cancer. Some areas of the press will have you believe that health and safety legislation is nothing more than `red tape' and as a result, a `burden on business'. How can the lives and safety of employees ever be considered a burden? `health and safety g...
Magazine issue | 2 Oct 2008
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Occupational health: an unnecessary expense?
...ou write an influenza pandemic business continuity plan? Technical guidance 28 Analysis 34 isto ckp hoto m .co P26 The Work and Families Act 2006 explained; DSE -- why are employers still not complying?; and New penalties for drivers using mobiles -- issues for employers. Are employers tackling work-related stress? workplacelaw 3 workplacelaw MAGAZINE Kelly Mansfield T. 01223 431 054 Pure maths! No scientific equations, no secret formula, no complicated spreadsheets. The occupational health sum is a simple one -- absence is a huge financial drain on business; making the investment in occupational...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2007
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H5N1 Bird Flu: Are you playing chicken with your company’s future?
...iews this month... Although no one can guarantee when [bird flu reaching the UK] will happen, it is clear that a large number of medical sources are confident it will happen. To me the question is more likely to be how will you be regarded if, despite all of this attention, you do nothing, and your staff/business suffers as a result. There are a number of sensible, practical steps that you could consider taking to reduce the risk of infection spreading in the workplace, these include: 1. Personal hygiene - washing of hands is an essential measure to combat spread of infection. 2. Don't come to work...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2006
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Stress management special
...e Law Magazine coincides with the publication of the HSE stress management standards, due out on 3 November. The standards have been longawaited and much debated, and their arrival has been anticipated with mixed feeling from employers. While there appears to be no argument (from the majority) that work-related stress is an issue that needs addressing, what is in question is what exactly stress is and who the responsibility for it really lies with. The word `stress' has been thrown around with such abandon in recent months that it's hard to know what it means anymore, and, if nothing else, the launch of t...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
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Headache? Try new and improved law and regulation!
...complicated by the ever increasing wealth of tricky case law relating to holiday leave or, more particularly, holiday leave and sickness absence (p. 16). The mandatory retirement age case known as Heyday has still not been finally decided (p. 7), causing more concern for employers and managers with staff nearing 65. And there are still a myriad of less fundamental changes to employment law that have not received much attention (p. 9) but which still need to be considered. All too much of a challenge? When successful barrister Jerome Mayhew reached his own personal overload point in the legal profes...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2009
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Smoking ban special
...ns for businesses, which often go beyond what should a no smoking sign say, and will people be able to smoke in company cars -- areas that are briefly covered in the Government's guidance. For example, what happens if you already have a no smoking shelter, can it still be used? What do you do about staff taking unauthorised breaks? And who will be responsible for smoking-related litter around your building? Workplace Law Group spoke to a number of businesses, employers, and facilities managers and found they still have quite a number of uncertainties that need to be addressed. One of the biggest is...
Magazine issue | 1 Jun 2007
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Disability access: is it becoming clear yet?
...ople to participate equally in society. The increased level of awareness of access issues in the property profession this year can also be credited to the requirement for access statements at the planning and building control stages of construction and building alterations. Training local authority staff in access issues would substantially improve the effectiveness of these documents as inaccessible The chartered surveyor... `Tenants take responsibility under the DDA!' Helen Kane 8 workplacelaw The access consultant... `The DDA might be vague, but it gives us enormous flexibility' Keith Bright E...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
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Business as usual? London bomb blasts
...ople to participate equally in society. The increased level of awareness of access issues in the property profession this year can also be credited to the requirement for access statements at the planning and building control stages of construction and building alterations. Training local authority staff in access issues would substantially improve the effectiveness of these documents as inaccessible The chartered surveyor... `Tenants take responsibility under the DDA!' Helen Kane 8 workplacelaw design applications are still slipping through the net. The design stage can still prove to be a miss...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2005
