PERSONAL LEARNING ZONE

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FEATURED ARTICLE

This issue of Occupational Health [at Work] features a Personal Learning Zone (PLZ) article recommended for continuing professional development (CPD). The assignment questions, ‘Personal learning statement’ and ‘Certificate of engagement’ are available to subscribers at bit.ly/AtWorkCPD. These will also be stored in your password-protected PLZ. The PLZ will help you document your own CPD. Occupational health physicians and nurses, occupational hygienists and other professionals can use the resource in support of their specialism’s revalidation or CPD requirements.

Pages 32–34. Knowledge of a disability.  Even if an employee has disclosed their disability to occupational health, an employer is not fixed with that knowledge unless the individual has consented to it being shared with the employer. However, disclosure may be in the employee’s best interest because, without knowledge of disability, the employer is not duty-bound to make reasonable adjustments.

ADDITIONAL CPD

The following articles, news and research items are suggested reading for CPD and professional revalidation. Subscribers can complete their online Personal Learning Zone CPD record at bit.ly/AtWorkCPD  

Pages 4–5. Access to remote and hybrid working is essential for many people with disabilities, but it is also important to ensure that other necessary adjustments are in place in the remote workplace.

Pages 6. Almost half of EU workers are exposed to at least one cancer-risk factor every working week. Effective control measures are lacking in some high-risk sectors.

Pages 7. Young workers are the most likely to experience stress and pressure at work, but are also the least confident to discuss their mental health concerns with their manager.

Pages 8-10.  Although the case has been remitted to the employment tribunal, the EAT findings in Phullar v Ofsted highlight the need to implement reasonable adjustments to support a worker’s return to work following cancer surgery.

Pages 18-19. When assessing an employee’s fitness for occupational driving where obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome is suspected, occupational health should seek further objective evidence and not rely on self-reports.

Pages 20-26.  Suicide is a significant public and occupational health issue. Prevention requires understanding of how trauma-exposed work, unsupportive workplace cultures, organisational pressure and regulatory processes can combine to create individual vulnerability.

Pages 35–38.  Our compendium of recent research studies includes the impact of chronotype on shiftworkers’ risk of cancer, improving the diagnostic accuracy of silicosis screening, and SOM guidance for ill-health retirement advisers.

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Occupational Health at Work April/May 2026 (vol. 22/6) pp39

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