December/January 2022/2023 (vol. 19/4)

ContentsFeaturesNewsLegal NewsResearch DigestResearch PlusCPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

Mental health first aid  pp03

News

Workers’ health information  pp04-05

London centre   pp05

Testing issues  pp05

Tea-breaker poll: 48-hour maximum working week  pp06-07

Sightloss toolkit  pp07

SEQOHS Standards  pp08-09

Action on silica  pp09

Respirable silica  pp09

MSK toolkit   pp10

RCN out of order  pp10-11

Asbestos directive  pp11

Legal News

Long-covid disability case  pp12-13

Sick pay and long COVID pp13-14

Pandemic special leave   pp14

Redeployment as a reasonable adjustment  pp14-15

Retained EU law bill  pp15-16

Ventilation test failures  pp16-17

Ionising radiation  pp17

Vibration prosecution  pp17

Features

EXPERT WITNESS: Employment practices: workers’ health: Part 1  pp18-20

Part 1: the draft new data protection guidance 

Digital eye strain pp21-28 CPD

A review of its causes, prevention and management 

COVID-19 and elite sport pp29-32

Occupational health challenges and reflections

Mental health issues in the workplace: Part 4  pp33-38

Part 4: OH professionals as preventionists 

Undergraduate OM training needed pp39-40

Work-focused undergraduate occupational medicine teaching in medical schools needs drastic reinforcement 

Research Digest

COVID-19 – Occupational disease  pp41

Suicide risk and work  pp41-42

HBV Vaccination  pp42

Features

PERSONAL LEARNING ZONE pp43 CPD