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The Society of Occupational Medicine has increased its membership by more than 150 since August 2017, with membership currently standing at just over 1560.
SOM members include occupational health physicians, nurses,...
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The government has launched plans to transform disability employment over the next ten years. The plans, which seek to increase the number of disabled people in work, include appointing an Expert Working Group on Occupational Health to...
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The Society of Occupational Medicine (SOM) was pleased to have had the opportunity to contribute to the Government’s Green...
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Save the date for the Society of Occupational Medicine / Faculty of Occupational Medicine conference 'Occupational Health 2018', 25th - 27th June in London.
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“Mental Health conditions are common and have the potential to blight the lives of individuals, their families and their friends. They also have an enormous economic and social cost. While rates of mental disorders are slightly lower in...
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Event takes a hard look at efforts to achieve workplace mental health and how they can transform the workplace.
Are the places we work more attuned to mental health and responsive to mental illness in 2017? That was the...
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This free service is available to SOM members for all your occupational health and medicine legal queries.
The service covers legal issues arising from your Occupational Health practice, so may cover employment law or legal...
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Dr Paul Williams (main picture) is the new President of the Society of Occupational Medicine.
Paul graduated from Leeds Medical School in 1987 and worked as a junior hospital doctor in Bradford, Leeds, York and Northumberland...
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The SOM offer insurance-based indemnity policy for nurses who work in occupational health and who are SOM members. Nurses have been legally obliged to have indemnity cover since the Government introduced the requirement for all...
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Edited by SOM international group chair, Dr Will Ponsonby, this new issue highlights that globally, an estimated 2.3 million workers die every year from occupational accidents and work- related diseases; this equates to 6,300 deaths...