Healthy workplaces handbook
Fully updated and extended, The healthy workplaces handbook is your essential NHS guide to health, safety and welfare at work. Now available in print and online.
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Healthy workplaces
We promote health and well-being at work, providing advice and information to NHS organisations on general health and safety, occupational health, mental health, stress, bullying and harassment, musculoskeletal disorders and sickness absence management.
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Response to Dame Carol Black's report
NHS Employers has welcomed the publication of Improving health and work: changing lives, the government's response to Dame Carol Black's recommendations for improving the health of Britain's working age population. The NHS will have a key role to play in delivering the services that the report outlines.
NHS Employers has welcomed the publication of Improving health and work: changing lives, the government's response to Dame Carol Black's recommendations for improving the health of Britain's working age population. The NHS will have a key role to play in delivering the services that the report outlines.
Non-cash benefits during maternity and adoption leave
Recent changes to the Sex Discrimination Act have implications for salary sacrifice schemes, including the provision of childcare vouchers. Employees are now entitled to receive all of their contractual terms and conditions, except for wages and salary, throughout the entire period of maternity, paternity or adoption leave.
Recent changes to the Sex Discrimination Act have implications for salary sacrifice schemes, including the provision of childcare vouchers. Employees are now entitled to receive all of their contractual terms and conditions, except for wages and salary, throughout the entire period of maternity, paternity or adoption leave.
POSHH health and safety standards document
Members of the Partnership for Occupational Health and Safety in Healthcare (POSHH), a sub group of the NHS Staff Council, have produced a document which pulls together legal requirements, examples of best practice, practical pointers and signposts on meeting standards for the key areas of occupational health and health and safety.
Members of the Partnership for Occupational Health and Safety in Healthcare (POSHH), a sub group of the NHS Staff Council, have produced a document which pulls together legal requirements, examples of best practice, practical pointers and signposts on meeting standards for the key areas of occupational health and health and safety.
Mental health and employment in the NHS
NHS Employers has published an updated version of Mental health and employment in the NHS to include facts and research evidence on mental health and employment, information on preventing job losses, details on the impact of stigma and recommendations for tackling mental health and ill health in doctors.
NHS Employers has published an updated version of Mental health and employment in the NHS to include facts and research evidence on mental health and employment, information on preventing job losses, details on the impact of stigma and recommendations for tackling mental health and ill health in doctors.
Events
Equality and diversity: a clean bill of health
20 January, 2009
NHS Employers' equality and diversity conference in London takes place against the backdrop of a new single Equality Bill, with a programme designed to help delegates explore how far they have come within their own organisations and what more they need to do to meet the challenges of the emerging agenda.
20 January, 2009
NHS Employers' equality and diversity conference in London takes place against the backdrop of a new single Equality Bill, with a programme designed to help delegates explore how far they have come within their own organisations and what more they need to do to meet the challenges of the emerging agenda.
Publications
Occupational health and safety standards (985 Kb PDF)
Mental health and employment in the NHS (278 Kb PDF)
NHS Employers' response to Dame Carol Black's review of the health of Britain's working age population (306 Kb PDF)
Pandemic Influenza - HR issues (75 Kb PDF)