Healthy business?

In recent years, employers have come under increasing pressure to offer their staff access to occupational health (OH) services and employee assistance programmes. Not only has research by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) revealed the UK has the lowest level of OH provision in the developed EU, but new legislation has also acted to raise employer's awareness about their obligations regarding wellbeing. Cost-effective The poor levels of provision must be blamed, at least in part, on confusion about occupational health itself. The original definition of 'the effect of work on health ...