Occupational health and wellbeing

New and updated

• Four out of five police officers feel stressed or anxious

  Date:

  14 February 2019

  Type:

  News

  Seventy-nine per cent of police officers say they have felt feelings of stress and anxiety in the past 12 months according to a Police Federation of England and Wales survey of its members.

• Podcast: Wellbeing in the workplace

  Date:

  8 February 2019

  Type:

  Audio and video

  A round-up of XpertHR's latest research on employee wellbeing in the workplace, including the reasons employers introduce initiatives, programmes that have the most impact on employee wellbeing and challenges to introducing measures in this area.

• Managing mental health

  Type:

  Good practice manual

  Updated to include case studies about the mental health initiatives implemented by two organisations.

• Choosing and evaluating wellbeing initiatives 2018/2019 survey

  Date:

  15 January 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR research explores how organisations decide which employee wellbeing initiatives to implement in the workplace, any barriers experienced in implementation and how much employers are spending in this area.

• How to deal with employees on long-term sickness absence

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include additional information on the risks of dismissing employees who are entitled to receive payments under a permanent health insurance scheme.

• Wellbeing initiatives in the workplace: XpertHR 2018/2019 survey

  Date:

  21 December 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR has conducted a wide-scale survey of wellbeing initiatives currently in use in the workplace and those planned within the next 12 months. The research also asked HR professionals to rank the impact of these initiatives on employee wellbeing.

• Case studies tool revitalised

  Date:

  13 December 2018

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We have refreshed our Case studies tool, and published the first four of a new batch of case studies.

• How the Wellcome Trust embedded mental health first aid

  Date:

  12 December 2018

  Type:

  Case studies

  The Wellcome Trust talks to XpertHR about why and how the organisation introduced a mental health first-aid scheme, and the impact of the scheme on the organisation's absence rates.

• How one individual's personal experience of mental ill health kick-started change at Unilever

  Date:

  12 December 2018

  Type:

  Case studies

  Geoff McDonald, former global vice president of HR at Unilever and now a speaker and business transformation consultant, talks to XpertHR about Unilever's focus on the mental health of its employees.

• Ten ways employers can maximise their occupational health spend

  Date:

  7 December 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Occupational health can bring significant expertise to bear on a wide range of workplace health and wellbeing challenges. But, like anything, an organisation's OH provision is only as good as how it is managed and supported. Charles Alberts outlines 10 ways for employers to optimise their OH provision.