employee health

Workplace Safety Still Major Concern For UK Companies

Armen Hareyan — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:26:11 -0500

Reversing trailer leaves one dead at the Port of Ipswich. The company is fined.

PCS Union Warns of Dangers from Slips and Trips

Armen Hareyan — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:19:57 -0500

Andrea Swales, a 39-year-old tax credit adviser from Hartlepool working with the HM Revenue and Customs offices in Peterlee, had suffered a fall in the office in 2006 after tripping over a loose carpet tile. She was five months pregnant at the time of her fall, and while she fell on a seat and saved her baby from injury, she twisted her back in the process.

How shift workers can improve job performance and implement sleep schedule

harminka — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:06:29 -0600

A study in the Dec. 1 issue of the journal Sleep shows that the use of light exposure therapy, dark sunglasses and a strict sleep schedule can help night-shift workers create a "compromise circadian phase position," which may result in increased performance and alertness during night shifts while still allowing adequate nighttime sleep on days off.

Prepared Patient: When You're Too Sick to Work

Lisa Esposito — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:03:42 -0600

Workplaces can vary dramatically in how they treat employees with a serious illness and policy manuals don't tell the whole story. You need to know what benefits you have and how much to communicate about your diagnosis, symptoms and treatment to better protect your job.

Changes in local health care markets affect national patient safety project

harminka — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:48:13 -0500

A national patient safety initiative involving major corporate employers and employer health care coalitions may set common goals, but success relies greatly on regional health care players and local market factors for actual implementation, says a recent study.

Employees with workplace flexibility have healthier lifestyle habits

harminka — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:56:53 -0600

If companies provide workplace flexibility and if employees perceive that flexibility as real, then healthier lifestyle habits are put into action by those employees, according to new research by lead author Joseph G. Grzywacz, Ph.D., of Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Workplace depression screening, treatment improves productivity

harminka — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:09:03 -0500

Enhanced and systematic efforts to identify and treat depression in the workplace significantly improves employee health and productivity, likely leading to lower costs overall for the employer, according to a study published September 26, 2007, in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Mortality among hospitalized patients following work hours reform

harminka — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 00:53:27 -0500

In a national study of more than 8 million hospitalized Medicare patients, there was no increase in mortality in the first two years following duty hour reform that limited work hours for resident physicians, according to an article in the September 5 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

700,000 New Yorkers with jobs do not have health insurance

harminka — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:08:26 -0500

Having a job is not necessarily a passport to health insurance in New York City. One million New Yorkers – some 17% of the adult population – lacked coverage in 2005, according to a new Health Department report, and 700,000 of them were employed.

No link between working night shift and increased risk of cancer

harminka — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 00:26:26 -0500

Working the night shift doesn't appear to increase the risk of developing cancer, suggests the findings of a new study of Swedish workers.

Missouri to help employers make worksites smoke-free

harminka — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:51:53 -0500

A new “toolkit” of information to help employers in Missouri establish a smoke-free work environment is now available from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

Moon jobs will tax mental health of workers

harminka — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:52:53 -0500

Think your job is tough? Can't wait for summer vacation to "get away from it all"Â? Just wait, says a Rutgers University-Camden researcher. In the not-too-distant future, some jobs will challenge workers placed far, far away from it all.