February/March 2016 (vol. 12/5)

ContentsFeaturesNewsLegal NewsResearch DigestResearch PlusCPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

Properly joined up? pp3

News

Budget boost for work-health schemes pp4-5

Five years pp4

Under pressure pp4

Hazardous substances pp5

Supporting SMEs pp5

ACAS disability guidance pp6

Disability management pp6

Skin exposures pp7

Fitness to dive pp7

Legal highs pp7

OH research grant pp7

Menopause pp7

PPE guidance pp7

Legal News

‘Schoolboy’ error pp8

COSHH and vibration fine pp8

Lead prosecution pp8

HAVS prosecution pp8

Reasonable adjustments and sickness absence policies pp9-11

Features

The state of occupational medicine pp12-13

Meet the practitioner: Emma Donaldson-Feilder pp14

chartered occupational psychologist

Hidden hearing loss pp15-19

Recent scientific discoveries are transforming our understanding of the effects of noise exposure on hearing

The noise and the damage done pp20-25

The law on noise-induced hearing loss

Emotional intelligence at work pp26-29

Using emotional intelligence in occupational health practice

Expert Witness: Consent … again pp30-32

Further developments in the law on consent

Research Digest

Multimorbidity pp33-34

Coffee-processing workers’ bronchiolitis pp33

Health problems pp34-35

Hearing loss review pp34

Research Plus

Presenteeism linked to weight gain pp36

Doctors in training at risk of depression pp36-37

Obesity linked to poor future work ability pp36

Carpal tunnel syndrome pp36

Preventing upper-limb disorder pp36

Hepatitis B treatment pp37

Hepatitis C treatment pp37

Exercise benefits people with respiratory disease pp37

Anaesthetic gases pp37