February/March 2017 (vol. 13/5)

Contents Features News Legal News Research Digest Research Plus CPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

mHealth at work pp03

News

In confidence pp04

Alcohol and drugs pp05

Tea-breaker poll: remote OH consultations pp06-07

HCWs’ flu vaccination pp07

NHS staff safety pp07

SEQOHS 200 pp07

HSE health strategy pp08-09

Valuing mental health pp08

Silica dust pp09

MS – improving work outcomes pp09

Menopause guidance pp10

Time to change pp10

Working conditions pp10

Legal News

Disability and decision making pp11-12

Recruitment age limit justified pp12-13

Hypersensitivity pneumonitis prosecution pp13-14

Control of nickel exposure pp14

Asbestos removal pp14

Huge HAVS fine pp14

Off-work benefits pp14

Features

Meet the Practitioner: Paul Blanchard-Flett pp15

Occupational Health Manager

Safeguarding the mental health of employees pp16-18 CPD

Mental-health management training for frontline managers

The state of OH nursing, part 2 pp19-26

Part 2: OH nurse education, funding and regulation

Anne de Bono pp27-29

President-elect of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

Hand–arm vibration syndrome, part 5 pp30-34 CPD

Part 5: prosecutions and common-law negligence

Menstrual leave pp35-36

Sally King, director of Menstrual Matters

Research in OH: Implementing a national OH clinical trial, part 3 pp37-39

Part 3: the national SCIN trial – roll out and lessons learned

Research Digest

Fatigue in hospital nurses pp40

Lack of sleep drives accidents pp40

Research Plus

PTSD therapy pp41

Interventions for common mental health problems pp41

Exercise for chronic fatigue syndrome pp41

Preventing burnout in mental health workers pp41

Medical students’ emotional wellbeing pp41-42

Respiratory protective equipment training pp42

Night nurses’ increased mortality risk pp42

Pre-placement carpal tunnel screening pp42