The Health and Safety Week 2015 website launches today following the hugely successful inaugural health and safety week last year, which had the backing of all the major UK associations.
This year health and safety week is being used to shine a much-needed spotlight on occupational health. While fatal accidents and injuries are falling year on year, the number of new cases in 2013/14 associated with work-related to ill health and occupational disease rose to 535,000.
Of these new ill-health cases in 2013/14, 80 per cent of these were musculoskeletal disorders, stress, depression or anxiety. In the run up to health & safety week in June, we will aim to highlight the importance of having a healthy workforce and what steps can be taken to better protect people.
In the build up to the week in June, the Health and Safety Week website will be showcasing specialist content, including conversations with all the supporting associations, interviews with survivors and advice for employers on how to approach occupational health issues.
To show your support for Health & Safety Week 2015, visit the website to access your supporters’ pack.
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In this episode of the Safety & Health Podcast, ‘Burnout, stress and being human’, Heather Beach is joined by Stacy Thomson to discuss burnout, perfectionism and how to deal with burnout as an individual, as management and as an organisation.
We provide an insight on how to tackle burnout and why mental health is such a taboo subject, particularly in the workplace.
