December/January 2020/2021 (vol. 17/4)

ContentsFeaturesNewsLegal NewsResearch DigestResearch PlusCPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

A glass half full?  pp03

News

Massive jump in work-related ill-health absence   pp04-05

Domestic abuse  pp05

Mental Health pp05

Tea-breaker poll: revalidation  pp06

OH appointments  pp07

Occupational carcinogens  pp07

Consent  pp07

Legal News

Substantial adverse effect  pp08-10

School violence   pp10

Features

Occupational health: the next decade  pp11-17

What the experts say 

Survey: Organisational approaches to mental health, Part 2 pp18-30

Mental Health First Aid at work: Use, impact and value: a survey of OH professionals and review of literature

Taking the sweat out of the GDPR pp32-35

A hitchhiker’s guide to continued compliance

Expert Witness: Discrimination in a time of COVID  pp36-39 CPD

Why the Equality Act remains essential, relevant and powerful 

News

COVID News: Clinically vulnerable workers  pp40

COVID News: Health inequalities  pp40-41

COVID News: Dead records  pp41-42

COVID News: Face coverings remain essential  pp42

COVID News: Occupational disease notifications  pp42-43

COVID News: Hazard group challenge  pp43-44

COVID News: First aid certificates  pp44

COVID News: Medical training hit by COVID  pp44

COVID News: Scottish School  pp44

Research Digest

COVID risk in US construction   pp45

Work as a health outcome  pp45-46

Features

PERSONAL LEARNING ZONE pp47 CPD