June/July 2015 (vol. 12/1)

ContentsFeaturesNewsLegal NewsResearch DigestResearch PlusCPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

Polls apart pp3

News

£8K Fund for OH nursing faculty pp4-5

Breathe freely pp4

SEQOHS for physios pp5

Shared parental leave pp5

Top job pp5

National staff health and wellbeing day pp6-7

Action on NHS staff health pp6

Max width for chopper passengers pp6

Litchfield works well pp7

Firefighters’ cancer risk pp7

Stress among ambulance workers pp7

Legal News

Establishing knowledge of disability pp8-9

Is diet-controlled diabetes a disability? pp9-11

Dermatitis from chemical exposure pp11

Deregulation Act pp11

Features

Meet the practitioner: Eleanor Dady pp12

Eleanor Dady — senior lecturer and practice placement coordinator

The politics of occupational health pp13-16

Are government-level decisions that affect OH practice based on evidence or political ideology?

Psychological impact of traumatic events pp17-21

Guidance for trauma-exposed organisations

Asthma in the workplace, Part 1 pp22-25

Part 1: background to the problem

Measles, mumps and rubella pp26-28

Transmission risks for healthcare workers

Expert Witness: Health, work and data protection, Part 2 pp29-30

Part 2: OH and the data protection principles

IOHA 2015 pp31-34

OH at Crossrail

Research Plus

Occupational disease reporting pp35

Cardiac patients returning to work pp35

Weight predicts absence pp35

Indoor air pollutants and asthma risk pp35-36

Stress raises risk of recurrent heart disease pp35

Onsite physical activity programmes pp36

Psychosocial factors in work-related injuries pp36

Addressing teachers’ stress pp36

Musculoskeletal conditions – intermediate care pp36

Research Digest

Impact of the fit note pp37