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World Wellbeing Week: Promote a safe and healthy workplace

It’s World Wellbeing Week, an international awareness event which highlights and celebrates all aspects of wellbeing, from physical, mental and emotional health to wellbeing at work. Running from 24th to 30th June, World Wellbeing Week is organised by WellBeing World, a network of health and wellbeing experts. Established in 2011, WellBeing World is “devoted...

IOSH: Prioritise workplace health to keep people in work

A policy expert from the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has called on the government to prioritise investment in workplace health, safety and wellbeing in order to keep people in work. In a recent blog post, Corey Edwards, Senior Policy and Public Affairs Manager at IOSH, said that better investment in occupational...

Stress linked to third of social care sick days

New research has found that just under a third of sickness absences among social care workers are linked to stress and poor wellbeing. Data collated by the British Psychological Society (BPS) reveals that 30% of the 500,021 sick days taken by social workers were due to mental health issues such as stress and work-related...