Healthy at Work

Healthy at Work

Author: Markus Wiencke

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 3319323318

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This book aims at exploring the link between corporate and organizational culture, public and private policies, leadership and managerial skills or attitudes, and the successful implementation of work-related healthcare in Europe. Therefore it brings together a wide range of empirical and theoretical contributions from occupational health, management, psychology, medicine, economics, and (organizational) sociology to address the question of how to sustainably promote occupational health. Such important questions are explored as: What aspects of a corporate culture can be associated with health issues? How does leadership style affect the health of employees? How are health-related decisions in the workplace affected by the political environment? To what extent are interventions influenced by corporate culture, leadership and public policy? How can we make such interventions sustainable?


Yes, You Can Talk about Mental Health at Work

Yes, You Can Talk about Mental Health at Work

Author: Melissa Doman Ma

Publisher: Welbeck Balance

Published: 2021-10-12

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781789563030

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This book is for anyone who wants to understand why we need to talk about mental health at work... and how to have constructive dialogue in the workplace.


Wellbeing at Work

Wellbeing at Work

Author: Jim Clifton

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2021-06-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 159562242X

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What if the next global crisis is a mental health pandemic? It is here now. One-third of Americans have shown signs of clinical anxiety or depression, and the current state of suffering globally has risen significantly. The mental health pandemic manifests everywhere, not least in your workplace. As organizations around the world face health and social crises, as well as economic uncertainty, acknowledging and improving wellbeing in your workplace is more critical than ever. Increasingly, leaders and managers must support mental health and cultivate resilience in employees — not just increase engagement and performance. Based on more than 100 million Gallup global interviews, Wellbeing at Work shows you how to do just that. Coauthored by Gallup’s CEO and its Chief Workplace Scientist, Wellbeing at Work explores the five key elements of wellbeing — career, social, financial, physical and community — and how organizations can help employees and teams thrive in those elements. The book also gives leaders ideas and action items to help employees use their innate talents and strengths to thrive in each of the wellbeing elements. And Wellbeing at Work introduces a metric to report a person’s best possible life: Gallup Net Thriving, which will become the “other stock price” for organizations. In a world where work and life are more blended than ever, maximizing employee wellbeing takes on greater urgency. Wellbeing at Work shows leaders how to create a thriving and resilient culture. If you and your leaders don’t change the world, who will? Wellbeing at Work includes a unique code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment, which reveals your top five strengths.


Unhealthy Work

Unhealthy Work

Author: Peter Schnall

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 1351840851

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Work, so fundamental to well-being, has its darker and more costly side. Work can adversely affect our health, well beyond the usual counts of injuries that we think of as 'occupational health'. The ways in which work is organized - its pace and intensity, degree of control over the work process, sense of justice, and employment security, among other things - can be as toxic to the health of workers as the chemicals in the air. These work characteristics can be detrimental not only to mental well-being but to physical health. Scientists refer to these features of work as 'hazards' of the 'psychosocial' work environment. One key pathway from the work environment to illness is through the mechanism of stress; thus we speak of 'stressors' in the work environment, or 'work stress'. This is in contrast to the popular psychological understandings of 'stress', which locate many of the problems with the individual rather than the environment. In this book we advance a social environmental understanding of the workplace and health. The book addresses this topic in three parts: the important changes taking place in the world of work in the context of the global economy (Part I); scientific findings on the effects of particular forms of work organization and work stressors on employees' health, 'unhealthy work' as a major public health problem, and estimates of costs to employers and society (Part II); and, case studies and various approaches to improve working conditions, prevent disease, and improve health (Part III).


Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being?

Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being?

Author: Gordon Waddell

Publisher: The Stationery Office

Published: 2006-09-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0117036943

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Increasing employment and supporting people into work are key elements of the Government's public health and welfare reform agendas. This independent review, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, examines scientific evidence on the health benefits of work, focusing on adults of working age and the common health problems that account for two-thirds of sickness absence and long-term incapacity. The study finds that there is a strong evidence base showing that work is generally good for physical and mental health and well-being, taking into account the nature and quality of work and its social context, and that worklessness is associated with poorer physical and mental health. Work can be therapeutic and can reverse the adverse health effects of unemployment, in relation to healthy people of working age, for many disabled people, for most people with common health problems and for social security beneficiaries.


Managing Health at Work

Managing Health at Work

Author: C. Wilkinson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1998-02-25

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780419229803

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Managing Health at Work reviews recent developments in the field of workplace health from a practical point of view. It is aimed at managers and health specialists concerned with initiating new policies to develop and improve workplace health. The book provides essential guidance in managing health at work, gives specific examples of good practice and alerts the reader to relevant guidelines surrounding issues such as stress, cancer, HIV and AIDS, RSI, health eating and exercise. The author argues that increasing attention should be paid to the use of workplace health especially with the growing number of employees making claims against their employers for a wide range of health problems.


Health and Safety at Work

Health and Safety at Work

Author: Jeremy Stranks

Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 0749461209

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This practical guide continues to provide advice on how to establish procedures in your organization. Written in jargon-free language, it cuts through the legal complexities to enable you to fully understanding the law and its implications to your business. The 9th edition has been updated to comply with all recent changes and additions to Health and Safety law. Updates include guidance on: The Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007, Heath and Safety Offences Act , EU Regulation concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), Asbestos and the Control of Asbestos at Work Regulations and Vibration induced injury and the Control of Vibration at Work Regulations. Formerly published as A Manager's Guide to Health & Safety at Work


Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work

Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work

Author: John Cherrie

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-06-09

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 1444325124

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Monitoring for Health Hazards at Work has become an essential companion for students and professionals in occupational hygiene, offering a concise account of the dangers faced in a wide variety of work environments and giving practical, step-by-step guidance to gauge exposure. It includes: Coverage of most major health hazards: airborne dust, fibres, gases, vapours, noise, radiation, and biological agents Accounts of the latest equipment and techniques required to monitor such hazards Full guidance on how to undertake risk assessments Now thoroughly revised and restructured by an eminent new team of authors, the fourth edition brings this valuable handbook right up to date.


The Psychologically Healthy Workplace

The Psychologically Healthy Workplace

Author: Matthew J. Grawitch

Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433820526

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This book examines the complex interplay between employees and management, to determine how a psychologically healthy workplace is constructed and maintained.


Your Body, Your Health

Your Body, Your Health

Author: Neil Shulman

Publisher: Pyr

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 9781591020127

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Offering basic medical information and advice, this guide to health offers chapters on how doctors make diagnosis and how to evaluate medical services. It then turns its attention to discussions of common medical problems to watch out for during the various stages of and explores some basic disease prevention practices. Explanations of some of the most common medical tests are presented. Finally, health related information on the Internet is reviewed. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR