Covid-19 Updates for Employers – January 2022

Isolation Period Cut from 10 Days to 7 Days  Fully vaccinated Covid sufferers can now cut their 10-day isolation period to seven days, it has been announced. Under new rules, people in England can take two lateral flow tests 24 hours apart on day six and seven of their quarantine. Self-isolation for COVID-19 cases reduced […]

Home working – HSE advice on lone working, DSE and mental health

Do you have people working from home temporarily as a result of the Coronavirus outbreak? As an employer, you have the same health and safety responsibilities for home workers as for any other workers. HSE website has advice on how you can minimise the risks to their health, which includes information on the following topics: […]

Work Related Stress

Work Related Stress Work related stress is how you feel when you have demands at work that exceed how much you feel you can cope with. Over 11 million working days are lost each year because of work related stress, and stress can contribute to conditions such as anxiety or depression. (more…)

Occupational Mental Health

Recently mental health and the psychosocial risks that can lead to stress has started to move up the health and safety agenda. Mental health isn’t considered the most obvious result of poor health and safety management compared to physical injuries. Some companies prefer to pretend it does not exist and view it as a personal or […]