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How can employers and employees monitor their health and better utilise such information to improve control of occupational health risks, especially musculoskeletal and mental health?

Background

Overall aim: To increase understanding of the extent, harm, costs and preventability of occupational ill-health. We will identify and develop the evidence necessary for HSE to implement its Health and Work Programme, and more widely, to help people in the health and safety system take greater responsibility for health at work. The Health and Work Programme will focus HSE’s major efforts on those conditions that are widespread, have life-limiting or life-altering impacts, and those with the greatest economic consequences. Stress, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and occupational lung diseases (OLDs) are foremost among these.

Next steps

Contact Simon Armitage - Head of Science and Engineering Profession (HoSEP) Business Partner
simon.armitage@hse.gov.uk

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