December/January 2011/2012 (vol. 08/4)

Contents Features News Legal News Research Digest Research Plus CPD

Inside this issue

Leader Article

e-Fit for purpose? pp3

News

HSE Passport blog pp4-5

Death, ill health and injury pp4

Employment law changes pp5

Dyslexia awareness pp5

48-Hour compliance pp5

Working with cancer pp5

RCN updates on OH competences framework pp6

OH technicians’ competences pp6

Work capability assessments pp6-7

Cooperating on flu pp7

Prescribed disease pp7

Absence is level, but costs are up pp8

Management training cuts absence pp8

Legal News

Lip service was not a reasonable adjustment pp9-10

Compensatory rest breaks pp10-11

Unfit to practice pp11-12

Pleural plaques – Scots law holds up pp12

Offshore workers’ holiday entitlement pp12-13

Insurance trigger in mesothelioma cases pp13

Dangerous substances pp13

Proposal to replace EMF directive pp13

Features

A multidisciplinary society pp14-15

The Society of Occupational Medicine’s new membership criteria

Marketable wellbeing pp16-19

Leeds Met’s wellbeing excellence becomes a commercial entity

Mediation in OH pp20-24

Workplace mediation: a role for occupational health?

A holistic approach to stress and wellbeing at work, Part 5 pp25-27

Part 5: what makes a good job?

Dilemma: The rise or fall of occupational medicine pp28-29

Is occupational medicine an ageing profession in decline?

Meeting the challenge pp30-33

Is occupational medicine an ageing profession in decline? A response from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.

Expert Witness: Mental health at work, Part 1 pp34-35

Part 1: compensation for stress-related illness

Research Digest

Audit of OH reports pp36

Asthma intervention would save dough pp36

Resilience training pp36-37

Totally (useless) clips of the heart pp37-38

Helping doctors with sickness certification pp38-39

X-Factor judged unreliable pp39

Colour vision damage pp39

Research Plus