August/September 2019 (vol. 16/2)

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Inside this issue

Leader Article

Dedication of the August/ September 2019 issue of the journal to Jackie Douglas pp02

Cutting absence pp03

News

Reforming health and work pp04

Sickness absence pp04-05

Doctors with disabilities pp05

Fatal injury statistics pp05

Work and health programme pp05

Tea-breaker poll: fast-track care for NHS staff? pp06-07

Burnout: an occupational phenomenon pp07

NHS people plan pp08

Boosting oh research pp08-09

Life course to health pp08

Never knowingly undertaxed pp09

Dying to work pp09

Legal News

OH reports and ‘knowledge of disability’ pp10-12

Perceived disability pp12-13

Death from toxic exposure pp13

Client company fined over asbestos pp13

Features

Managing long-term sickness absence, part 1 pp14-18

Part 1: the challenges

Understanding burnout, part 1 pp19-27 CPD

Part 1: the WHO has classified burnout as an ‘occupational phenomenon’. But what is it, and why is it important?

Reasonable adjustments for dyslexia pp28-31

What works at work?

Mental wellbeing in heavy industry pp32-35

Planning and implementing a health and mental wellbeing programme at Komatsu Mining Corp

Expert Witness: Sex discrimination: an update pp36-38

Sex discrimination, pregnancy, maternity and the menopause

Research Digest

Night work increases miscarriage risk pp39

More asbestos in US? pp39-40

Self-certification pp40

Interventions to prevent depression pp40-41

Precarious employment pp41

Mates in mining pp41-42

Features

Personal Learning Zone in this issue pp43 CPD