October/November 2014 (vol. 11/3)

ContentsFeaturesNewsLegal NewsResearch DigestResearch PlusCPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

Better together? pp3

News

Single organisation falls at first hurdle pp4-5

HWS ‘on track’ pp6-7

Family leave essential for child health pp7

OSHwiki pp7

SEQOHS revisions pp7

Better OH for Wales? pp8

Standard revision pp8-9

Ebola guidance pp9

Trauma guideline pp9

Mental health action pp10-11

Fit for force pp10

Online risk assessment pp10

HSE chief exec pp11

Cochrane reviews pp11

Support for MSDS pp11

Legal News

Reasonable adjustment to redeployment process pp12-13

Vibration prosecution pp13

Tribunal statistics pp13

Features

Meet the practitioner: Subhashis Basu pp14

Academic SR in occupational medicine

Practitioner Health Programme pp15-21

Successes, challenges and future plans

The business case for OH, Part 2 pp22-26

Part 2: long live the ROI – making the data work for you

Survey: OH pay and benefits 2014, Part 2 pp27-33

Part two of our survey of pay and benefits examines working hours, benefits and the future of the profession

THOR – the strength of OH data, Part 2 pp34-37

Part two: the research

Expert Witness: Is there a duty of disclosure? pp38-39

Patient confidentiality and the new rules on candour in healthcare

Research Digest

Is one-stop TB testing cost effective? pp40-41

Doctors addicted to work pp41-42

Bored, stressed and leaves pp42

Joint replacement pp42

Bookshelf

Psychology at work pp43

Research Plus

Hand washing for outdoor work pp44

Respirable quartz pp44

Return to military work after cancer pp44

Supportive leadership key to preventing long-term absence pp44-45

Pushing and pulling pp44

Pre-placement nerve conduction studies for CTS pp45

Improving sleep after nightwork pp45

Pilots have double the risk of melanoma pp45

Antineoplastic drugs pp45