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The Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research @thomasashtoninst.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New publication 📢 The THOR Trends Report is now available, providing the latest insight into recent trends in work-related ill health. 🔗 doi.org/10.71535/ad4... @manchester.ac.uk, @hsegovuk.bsky.social, @somceo.bsky.social, @bohsworld.bsky.social #OccupationalHealth, #WorkplaceSafety, #THOR

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Lloyd's Register Foundation @lr-foundation.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Professor Neil Greenberg, President of The Society of Occupational Medicine, discusses how its Work, Safety, Health Intelligence Centre team is investigating how we can best protect disaster and emergency responders from the risks of harm to their mental health. Read now: loom.ly/WSJYPSQ

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

www.som.org.uk/ohaw for more information

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Want to listen and watch the latest key topics in #occupational #health? View the Society of Occupational Medicine catalogue of free public webinars here: www.som.org.uk/sites/som.or...

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Great new publication from SOM Supporting Trailblazer and Workwell pilots..:

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Congratulations to Shelly Asquith from the TUC for receiving honorary membership of the SOM!

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/06/2025

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration will hold hearings on the first proposed federal rule to prevent heat-related illnesses and deaths at work by requiring water and rest breaks when temperatures surpass certain levels, put forward by the Biden administration.

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Will Trump End OSHA’s Federal Heat Protections for Workers?

As workplace deaths from heat increase, OSHA will debate the future of the first federal rules to protect workers from extreme heat.

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Metro @wmata.com · 24/06/2025

Feeling the heat? 🥵 Meet Brice from Metro’s Occupational Health and Safety team. Hear how you can incorporate steps we take to help protect our employees during extreme temperatures.

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Faculty of Public Health @fphuk.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

FPH President @profkevinfenton.bsky.social opens the Faculty’s annual Distinction and Awards Ceremony! Today, we recognise and celebrate our members’ achievements and commitment to ensuring a healthier future for populations across the UK and overseas – leaving no one behind.

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Warwick Institute for Employment Research @warwickier.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

📢 Creating Healthy Jobs research project gets underway A new project that seeks to improve UK working age health, by fixing the jobs that make workers ill, was launched this week. Read more here: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/... #CreatingHealthyJobs

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Gill Dix @IER
Emily Allen @NIHR
Professor Dame Carol Black
Professor Chris Warhurst @IER

Mike Clancy @Prospect Union
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Caitlin Van Abeelen @NIHR
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Caitlin Van Abeelen @NIHR
Ben Willmott @CIPD
Prof Chris Warhurst @IER
Prof Dame Carol Black
Emily Allen @NIHR
Gillian Connor @IER
Gill Dix @IER
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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Great speech by @cipd.bsky.social CEO, Peter Cheese, at the SOM/RSM spring event on the value of workplace wellbeing and the role of occupational health @cipdpolicy.bsky.social

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CIPD Policy @cipdpolicy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

At today's @cipd.bsky.social and @somceo.bsky.social sky.social Parliamentary reception, we are highlighting the importance to the economy of prioritising women’s and reproductive health. Huge thanks to @sarahowen.org.uk for joining us today to #HelpWomenThrive

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Jo Bibby @jobibby.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Want to understand what has been happening to working age mental health? Read @healthfoundation.bsky.social analysis below. Across multiple data sources, rates have nearly doubled in 10 years for the 16-34 age group. Lower qualifications associated with ⬆️ rates www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...

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Mental health trends among working-age people

With the mental health of working-age people appearing to be getting worse, we look more closely at what the trends are telling us.

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Learning and Work Institute @learnworkuk.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Check out our recommendations for helping 500k more people into work over 10 years in @financialtimes.com. 💡 These include introducing a benefit passport to allow people to return to their previous benefit status if they leave work within six months and extending Work Allowances to 16 hours a week.

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What went wrong with the UK’s welfare system?

Factors behind sharp rise in incapacity and disability benefits are complex and at times counterintuitive

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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

We are very pleased to be joined by the Minister for Social Security and Disability, Stephen Timms, at the launch of Action for #HealthierWorkingLives. The Minister says the report is 'welcome and very timely' and 'absolutely rightly highlights the importance of early intervention'.

Stephen Timms speaks at the launch of the final report of the Commission for Healthier Working Lives

Health Foundation Chief Executive Jennifer Dixon, Minister for Social Security and Disability and Chair of the Commission for Healthier Working Lives Sacha Romanovitch pictured in front of a banner reading 'action for better working-age health and a thriving workforce'

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

@healthfoundation.bsky.social great panel on #healthierworkinglives and need for good management, job design and flexibility.. and how we can support better entry routes and retention for young people

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The Thomas Ashton Institute for Risk and Regulatory Research @thomasashtoninst.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

🌟 Calling all future researchers! 🌟 Salient Hub is offering PhD funding for groundbreaking projects aimed at building a secure and resilient world. Don't miss this chance to contribute to transformative research. 🖊️Apply today! bit.ly/41y3VbY #PhD #ResearchFunding #SalientHub #Innovation"

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SALIENT: Building a secure and resilient world - PhD Opportunity - SALIENT

SALIENT: UK research hub advancing national security and resilience through interdisciplinary collaboration and citizen engagement.

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Rt Hon Sir Stephen Timms at the launch of Health Foundation Action for healthier working lives report.. “good work & health go hand in hand and want to make work pay”. Government want shift work coaches to have work & health conversations and consultation planned this month #healthierworkinglives

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Jo Bibby @jobibby.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

At the launch for our #healthierworkinglives report Commission chair - Sacha Romanovitch- sets out the challenge in numbers: ☑️ 8.2m working age adults with a health condition ☑️ 300k leaving the workforce each year ☑️ 51% businesses concerned about employer health

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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Their report, 'Action for Healthier Working Lives', says people with health conditions are too often forced to leave work because of an unfit workplace and benefits system. Bold recommendations include raising Statutory Sick Pay rates and a new ‘vocational rehabilitation benefit’.

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The Health Foundation @healthfoundation.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

📣 NEW: Final report by our Commission for #HealthierWorkingLives. The Commissioners say government and employers must act early when health issues arise – not wait until people have already left work ⬇️ buff.ly/EfkpBQu

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Action for healthier working lives

The Commission for Healthier Working Lives’ final report sets out the need for a new approach to work and health, outlining seven key recommendations to lay the foundation for sustained long-term…

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Healthy Working Lives Group @hwlg.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Study Occupational Medicine at @UofGlasgow! 🎓 HWLG Diploma offers flexible, expert-led training in workplace health & wellbeing. Perfect for healthcare pros looking to advance in occupational health. Applications open now! bit.ly/3VUz2wL #OccupationalHealth #HealthyWorkingLives #ProfDev

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Learning and Work Institute @learnworkuk.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

“If you invested an extra £250m a year in employment programs ... that should pay off ultimately in saving the taxpayer about £4bn pounds a year in a decade’s time.” In @telegraphnews.bsky.social, @stephenevans.bsky.social calls for greater investment in employment support. @eirnolsoe.bsky.social

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Welcome to the frontline of Labour’s battle to get sick Britain back to work

A promising new pilot scheme could serve as a blueprint for tackling long-term unemployment

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Heejung Chung @heejungchung.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Very excited to be presenting at this #InternationalWomensDay event for the with lots of interesting academics. This will be about all things around women, work, and well-being. My talk will be about flexible working, remote working and women's well-being. Come join us!! @somceo.bsky.social

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Anna Coleman @drannac.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Report finds * 21% UK workers have health limitations – one of the highest rates among working-aged adults in EU15. *The UK also has one of the widest employment gaps between people with & without health limitations tinyurl.com/yc6cj2w7 @drdon.bsky.social @martievt.bsky.social @somceo.bsky.social

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UK has one of widest ill health employment gaps in Europe

The UK stands among the worst performers in workplace health for people with long-term ill health or disability, according to new research.

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The winners of the 2024 SOM Occupational Health Awards were announced on Thursday 12th December at our Awards Reception in Manchester .. see: www.som.org.uk/som-occupati...

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The Call for Abstracts for the SOM/FOM 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting is open. We encourage submissions from medical, nursing and allied health professionals. The Conference will be held in Brighton on 17th and 18th June 2025. Please see the graphic below for information:

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Sasjkia Otto @sasjkia.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Fab DWP Get Britain Working white paper commits to review on healthy inclusive work. Key to my @thefabians.bsky.social report on tackling inactivity. We need ✅ Working patterns suited to people’s needs ✅ More and better occupational health ✅ Extra support where needed bit.ly/3CPDru4 bit.ly/3ZcExr7

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Prof Raymond Agius @profraymondagius.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

This Editorial in "Occupational medicine" discusses reasons to eschew attitudes of ‘living with the virus’ or of reversion to ‘business as usual’ when we continue to face risks from common airborne infections at work such as coronaviruses, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV).

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Yes. "A ‘let them rip’ attitude towards the mitigation of the risk of common airborne infections in the workplace is unacceptable in terms of law, good occupational medicine practice and public health." #CleanAir #Ventilation #AirFiltration

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Prof Raymond Agius @profraymondagius.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Covid-19 Public Inquiry. Closing statement of @the-bma.bsky.social www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-s...

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Great SOM with @rcnlibraries.bsky.social event Today covering health surveillance, neurodiversity and noise induced Hearing loss..

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Wendy J Chaplin @wendyjchaplin.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Are you a company owner, branch or line manager, or work in human resources or occupational health? Do you have responsibility for staff health and wellbeing? If so, and you are based in England, we would value your views. Please spare 5 minutes to complete this short, anonymous survey.

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Prof Raymond Agius @profraymondagius.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Bluesky is now my preferred platform for posts. My latest Editorial: “A better approach to mitigate the risk of airborne infections in workplaces“ doi.org/10.1093/occm... TL;DR A ‘let them rip’ attitude towards the mitigation of the risk of common airborne infections in the workplace is unacceptable

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A better approach to mitigate the risk of airborne infections in workplaces

Although the worst of the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic appears to be over, the burden of airborne infection in workplaces remains unacceptably high, l

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Book at www.som.org.uk/civicrm/even...

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

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Nick Pahl @somceo.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Lates work and health statistics..

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Scribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

New and helpful guide from the Society of Occupational Medicine on returning to and staying in work with Long Covid. Please share with your manager, HR, union rep to help support you and colleagues with Long Covid in the workplace. www.som.org.uk/support-peop...

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Support for people with Long COVID to return and stay at work | The Society of Occupational Medicine

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