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17 August 2022
The recent wave of hot weather in the UK was met with mixed responses, but the most creative (if unsuccessful) solution to staying cool at work was surely the breezy hi-vis kilt worn by a bin collector on his rounds in York as an alternative to his council provided PPE trousers.
11 August 2022
I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said nothing in the world is certain but death and taxes. Well, for everyone who had to take a crash course in computer literacy during the pandemic (i.e. me), then I’d include stress within that quote. It doesn’t quite have the same ring to it, but if little else, it provides a segue into the fraught arena of workplace stress claims for psychiatric injury.
14 April 2022
On 6 April 2022, the Personal Protective Equipment at Work (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (PPER 2022) came into force to amend the scope of the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992 (PPER 1992). As a consequence, employers now owe duties in relation to PPE to categories of workers who have a more casual employment relationship and who work under a contract for services.
08 October 2021
Statistics show that at least 1 in 4 people in the UK experience ill mental health (such as anxiety, depression, addiction and PTSD) each year. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought many challenges to our daily lives and it was expected that the need for mental health support would increase during the pandemic.
30 July 2021
Douglas Strang outlines how to future proof businesses post pandemic.
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