Health Issues

Workplace stress is one of the primary causes of employee sickness absence each year and, in an ever competitive world where long hours are increasingly the norm, handling stress has never been more...

Foot and Mouth Disease is a serious and infectious condition which affects cloven-hoofed animals which is why the farming community need to be very vigilant about it, given that it can affect sheep,...

Avian influenza, more commonly referred to as ‘bird flu’, has made the headlines over recent years with many thousands of birds on poultry farms being culled as a result. Although it can be...

How it’s important to stay at home if you suspect that you’re suffering from a severe cold or flu. The symptoms and how to differentiate between a cold and flu and how practising good hygiene at work...

How the issue of food hygiene is extremely thorough and how this only covers the important basics. Things you must do to comply with the law and what inspectors will be keen to focus on as well as...

Carbon Monoxide gas is a real killer. It’s colourless and odourless and you’d simply not be aware of its presence until you started to experience problems as a result of inhaling it and, in some...

Hospital acquired infections (HAI), often referred to as ‘superbugs’ are never seemingly out of the news these days with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or ‘MRSA’, as it’s more commonly...

Infections at work can occur anywhere in which harmful micro-organisms are present. These can include, but are not limited to, fungi, bacteria, internal parasites and viruses. Many...

Legionnaire’s Disease is a type of pneumonia which can, in some instances, prove fatal. The germ which causes the disease is a bacterium called ‘Legionella pneumophila’ and the disease is...

There are many causes of occupational asthma in the workplace. It could be deemed to be ‘occupational’ if your symptoms tend to be worse during the working week or after you finish work or if...