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The healthy workplaces handbook

 
Healthy Workplaces Handbook

Your essential NHS reference guide to health, safety and welfare at work - now fully updated and extended. Order your copy now online or call our publication hotline on 0870 444 5841.

Whether you're a board member or senior manager, occupational health or HR professional, line manager or staff member, you'll find this easy-to-use guide invaluable.

Your essential NHS guide to staff well-being

'...makes all the difference in meeting the health, safety and welfare challenge' - Mary Brassington, Association of NHS Occupational Health

Produced with input from the NHS, government, trade unions and public bodies, The healthy workplaces handbook brings the experts to you. See the list of contents and sample chapters on Fitness for work and Developing a trust strategy for workplace health, or view the online demonstration.

How The healthy workplaces handbook can help you

Do you have any responsibility for the health and safety of your organisation? Perhaps you're a board member whose main concern is to make your organisation more productive?

Whatever your role, providing a safe and healthy place to work is critical in every health service and public sector organisation.

  • Access the latest regulations and practice in one place.
  • Follow our practical advice for a safe, healthy work environment.
  • Understand the business case for a healthy and productive workplace.

The healthy workplaces handbook is the straightforward, hands-on guide to tackling your organisation's health and safety strategy, including:

  • how to protect your staff from infection
  • reducing sickness absence through early intervention
  • understanding the business case for a healthy and productive workplace
  • accessing the latest regulations and practice in one place
  • practical advice and expert techniques
  • successfully handling the sensitivities of stress management
  • dealing with mental health discrimination
  • how to control safety risks
  • encouraging good management of occupational health.

For more information please call NHS Employers on 0113 306 3007 or email us at hwhandbook@nhsemployers.org.

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The healthy workplaces handbook: the NHS reference guide to staff well-being

Last reviewed 11 Aug 2008

Contacts

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Publications

Developing a trust strategy for workplace health This sample chapter from the forthcoming Healthy workplaces handbook takes trusts through the steps needed to develop a workplace health strategy to ensure the safety and well-being of staff. (98 kB PDF)|

Chapter 23 - Fitness for work  This sample chapter from The healthy workplaces handbook looks at how to assess fitness for work, common conditions that can affect it and how to encourage a healthy lifestyle among employees. (61 kB PDF)|

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The healthy workplaces handbook online demo View a demonstration of The healthy workplaces handbook. You will need Windows Media Player to access the presentation|

 

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