Employee Benefits Live 2018
Valentine Occupational health, along with its sister companies, Health Matters and Life & progress at Europes largest dedicated reward and benefits event at the ExCel in London 2nd – 3rd October 2018.
Biological influencers on mental health
The education and awareness resources for mental health is dominated by messages of psychosocial and environmental impacts of triggers for mental ill health. Information on friendships, social connections, giving to others, work pressures, volumes of exercise, substance misuse, genetics, personal history and thought processes is plentiful. Occasionally there is acknowledgement that there are also biological … Read more
CWROCKS Business Expo 28/09/2018
Valentine Occupational Health at The Coventry & Warwickshire Chamber or Commerce Business Expo today, Friday 28th September 2018 at the Ricoh Arena Coventry. Today, Valentine Occupational Health exhibited at the CWRocks Expo at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. The room was filled with interesting local organisations, keen to speak about their services with visitors from other … Read more
Work Related Asthma
Work related asthma There is no universally accepted definition of work related asthma. It is appropriate to consider it as asthma that is either caused or made worse by work factors. If asthma symptoms worsen when at work and improves when not at work there is likely to be an occupational cause. Asthma is an … Read more
OH related legal & guidance update, August, 2018
Post-traumatic stress disorder After a traumatic event at work, many employers would think that offering a psychological debriefing session which aims to help a person find meaning after a stressful event to be an appropriate action demonstrating a caring and responsible employer. But recent draft guidance (to be published December, 2018) from the National Institute … Read more
Managing Long-Term Health Conditions at Work
Long-term health conditions (LTHC) are illnesses and diseases for which there is no cure. You will have heard of some – diabetes, arthritis, asthma, multiple sclerosis (MS), depression, anxiety, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD very different from IBS) family. I hope that from these examples you are starting to recognise that they are common. Many if … Read more
Even Cave Men Had Anxiety…
Well, what is anxiety and what does it mean to you? A lot of people including myself once, often associated anxiety as being afraid of something, or simply being nervous. Kind of like that butterfly feeling you get in your stomach. For a percent of people this is the case, however there is a large … Read more
Flu – Be Prepared
Flu is a self-limiting, unpleasant respiratory illness. Usually it lasts a week but can be up to 2 weeks, during this time the individual is unlikely to be able to work. However, for certain individuals, flu has more risks to it; Elderly (60+) Pregnant Women Children Immunosuppressed Underlying long-term disease, particularly if respiratory or cardiac … Read more
Efficient, Cost Effective Health Surveillance
Health surveillance is about having procedures in place to detect work-related ill health at an early stage. Management of health and safety at work regulations, 1999 identify health surveillance as a process to be used to detect signs and symptoms of work-related ill health where: There is an identifiable disease or adverse health condition related … Read more
EVENTS
Forthcoming Event: Online Suicide Webinar Valentines OH Clinician, Anna Harrington will be hosting an online suicide webinar. It will take place on Wednesday 29th August 2018 at 10:30am and will finish at 11:15am. The webinar is free to attend. please click on the link to book your tickets for this event. The loss of an … Read more
