Inside this issue

Good work, good health pp03

Poor progress on disability pp04-05

Absence statistics pp05

FOHN To Launch In 2018 pp06

Tea-breaker poll: fit note certification pp07

Drinking habits pp07

Business Case pp08

Emergency workers’ health clearance pp08-09

Suicide stats and prevention pp10

Gender differences   pp10-11

SHE apprenticeships pp11-12

Tobacco-free NHS pp11

Work-related presenteeism pp11

IOSH: work 2022 pp11

Long-term absence dismissals pp13-15

Sole practitioners pp15

Obituary: Good work pp16-17

A tribute to Gordon Waddell

Expert Witness: Direct or indirect? pp18-20

An explanation of direct and indirect discrimination

Excellence in OH nurse education pp21-24

Developing a sustainable blueprint to meet the needs of OH nursing in the UK

Mindfulness at work pp25-29 CPD

Workplace mindfulness interventions – how, why and where?

Hand–arm vibration syndrome, part 6 pp30-36

Part 6: management of the employee with HAVS

Conference News: Dusting down construction pp37-41

The prevention of hazardous exposure in the construction industry took centre stage at the BOHS annual conference

Return to work pp42

Dermatitis is bad news pp42

Personal Learning Zone  pp43 CPD