ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|10 pages

Focus on workplace health

chapter 2|28 pages

Stress

chapter 3|20 pages

Back pain and back injuries

chapter 5|20 pages

Cancer

chapter 6|19 pages

HIV and AIDS

chapter 8|13 pages

Repetitive strain injury

chapter 9|11 pages

Managing health at work