June/July 2011 (vol. 08/1)

ContentsFeaturesNewsLegal NewsResearch DigestResearch PlusCPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

Concerning OH pp3

News

Fit notes pp4-5

Health & Safety Review pp4

Fit-for-work reforms pp5

Working time pp5

PHP funding renewed pp5

Century for SEQOHS pp6

More for staff health pp6-7

Steve Boorman pp7

Police absence needs long-term strategy pp8

US workers take fewer sickies, claims PwC pp8-9

Light on obesity pp9

TUC guidance on menopause pp9

Legal News

Ill-health retirement is not a reasonable adjustment pp10-12

Noise-induced hearing loss pp12

Asbestos compensation law pp12-13

Equality Act codes in force pp13

Features

Orchestrating the health and wellbeing of doctors pp14-17

Occupational health should be leader and conductor

Violence at work, Part 1 pp18-20

Part 1: understanding the nature of violence at work

OH professional practice, Part 1 pp21-27

Part 1: jobs, priorities, concerns, threats and opportunities

International OH systems, Part 5 pp28-32

Part 5: Australia

A holistic approach to stress and wellbeing, Part 2 pp33-35

Part 2: models, practice and policy

Expert Witness: Expert witnesses can be liable for negligence pp36-37

Implications of the Supreme Court ruling in Jones v Kaney

Research Digest

Driven to death pp38

Employment boosts health pp38-39

Reducing the occupational cancer burden pp38

Research Plus

Workplace interventions to tackle depression pp40

Workers’ health monitoring pp40

Pregnancy, work and stress pp40

Functional capacity testing pp40

Cognitive behavioural approach to sickness absence pp40

Junior doctors’ working hours pp40

Ergonomic interventions need theoretical basis pp41

Treating chronic HCV infection pp41

Longer hours associate with poor diabetes management pp41

Nursing errors – predictive factors pp41