February/March 2015 (vol. 11/5)

ContentsFeaturesNewsLegal NewsResearch DigestResearch PlusCPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

A reasonable expectation pp3

News

Ebola prevention pp4

Fit for work pp5

MRC backs centre pp5

WCA review pp6

Paid time out for health promotion? pp7

Tea-breaker: weight loss or stop-smoking classes in work time? pp7

Diving codes pp8

Shiftwork health pp8

CBE for HSE deputy pp8

Domestic violence workplace support pp8–9

Healthy workplaces pp9

Letter

Letter: The State of Occupational Medicine pp9

News

Management quality pp9

Letter

Letter: The State of Occupational Medicine pp9

Legal News

Is obesity a disability? pp10-11

Employee surveillance breached DPA pp11

Lead exposure pp11

Features

Meet the practitioner: Jo Robbins pp12

Jo Robbins, OH nurse, manager and director, Washington House Occupational Health Ltd

Top employers’ OH provision pp13-16

Employee health and wellbeing in the UK

Survey: Professional practice survey 2015, Part 1 pp17-26

Part 1: the state of the OH professions

Sharp relief pp27-34

Highlights from the Eye of the needle report and POINTERS conference on occupational bloodborne virus exposure prevention

Expert Witness: Health, work and data protection, Part 1 pp35-36

Part 1: all change across the EU

Research Digest

OH interventions for diabetes and CVD pp37–38

Broad church pp37

Work-related ill health pp38

Research Plus

Sudden cardiac death in police work pp39

HCV treatment without interferon pp39

Stress and the risk of coronary heart disease pp39

Arthritis and return to work pp39

Hepatitis C treatment review pp39

Chronic fatigue syndrome review pp40

Depression and return to work pp40

Stress reduction in healthcare workers pp40

Bricklayers’ lung cancer risk pp40