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The healthy workplaces handbook

 

From age discrimination and staff counselling to risk assessment and managing sickness absence, this comprehensive reference guide is a must for your workplace.

Contents

Section 1: Health, work and well-being

1. Health, work and well-being

2. Developing a trust strategy for workplace health - see sample chapter

3. Work-life balance

4. Workplace health environmental audit

5. The Disability Discrimination Act

6. The Luxembourg Declaration

Section 2: Staff welfare issues

7. Improving Working Lives

8. Managing staff through change

9. Age discrimination and flexible retirement

10. Pregnancy in the workplace

11. Childcare and carers

12. Bullying and harassment

13. Violence against staff

14. Domestic abuse

15. Diabetes

16. Obesity

17. Alcohol and drugs

18. Smoking

19. Counselling

20. Volunteers and volunteering

Section 3: Occupational health

21. Occupational health services

22. Occupational health in primary care

23. Fitness for work

24. Health assessments

25. Unsocial hours and night working

26. Protecting staff from infection

27. Handling an influenza outbreak

28. Handling infected cadavers

29. Occupational Health Smart Cards

Section 4: Health and safety

30. Managing risk

31. Risk assessment

32. Slips, trips and falls

33. Manual handling

34. Needlestick injury

35. Safe management of healthcare waste

36. Dangerous substances

37. Ionising radiation

38. Latex

39. Handcare

40. Home working

41. Lone working

42. Contractors and sub-contractors

Section 5: Managing sickness absence

43. Managing sickness absence

Section 6: Stress management

44. Stress management

Section 7: Mental health and employment

45. Mental health and employment

Last reviewed 17 Sep 2007

Contacts

Email hwhandbook@nhsemployers.org|
 

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)|

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