This guide helps OH professionals navigate AI use in their practice. It brings together key principles from national policies and frameworks and is designed to be used alongside the AI risk assessment checklist. OH leaders are encouraged to oversee AI implementation, ensure staff are trained, and uphold governance and ethical standards. The goal is for AI tools to be reliable, accurate, and safe for use in occupational health settings without compromising people.
Read MoreDeveloped by the Learning and Developing Occupational Health (LDOH) foundation. This free digital Repository for publications on Basic Occupational Health Services (BOHS)and similar initiatives (second edition 2025) offers access to otherwise not easy to find scientific articles, books, reports, abstracts of lectures, and policy documents of international organizations such as WHO, ILO, ICOH, and WONCA.
Read MoreThis report reviews the main occupational health and safety concerns in the artisanal and small-scale mining sector.
Read MoreView the Global Occupational Safety & Health Coalition’s (GOSH) policy brief on “Occupational Health and the SDSs.”
Read MoreView a presentation on “Making the Case for Occupational Medicine.”
Read MoreThe purpose of this paper is to provide guidance on the identification and management of Long COVID – particularly regarding return to work. A multi-disciplinary approach is essential to help retain and support people affected by Long COVID to return to work. It will be of use to occupational health providers, employers, workers, people with Long COVID, HR personnel, managers, medical, allied health professionals and unions.
Read MoreThis report discusses the three broad reasons (legal, moral, and financial) why employers provide workers with access to occupational health services and summarizes the best available and most recent evidence from around the world for different health interventions in the workplace. Download the UK report authored by Paul Nicholson, OBE.
Read MoreOn September 21, SOM held a half day Summit on universal access to occupational health. Speakers included Professor Ewan Macdonald OBE, Professor Andrew Curran, Dr. Ivan Ivanov, Dr. Steve Boorman and Professor Maggie Rae. Finishes with a panel discussion with SOM Patron Dame Carol Black, FOM President Dr. Steve Nimmo and SOM President Dr. Jayne Moore.
Read MoreOn September 14, SOM presented Occupational Medicine & Health Challenges in South and Central Asia & Russia: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan. Presenters included Dr. Rajgopal Thirumalai (India), Dr. Nurlan Baimenshin (Kazakhstan), Dr. Aseni Wickramatillake (Sri Lanka), and Dr. Peter Eniseyskiy (Russia).
Read MoreThe document aims to:
• Provide organisations with guidance on supporting the wellbeing of employees through change and major upheavals such as restructures and redundancies
• Highlight policies and practices that can help organisations support employees in transitioning to remote working and protect their wellbeing and effectiveness.
Read MoreThis document aims to:
• Provide organisations with guidance on effective mental health and wellbeing strategies
• Highlight best practice to help employers develop effective and sustainable COVID-19 secure wellbeing
strategies.
Read MoreThis document aims to:
• Highlight the need for effective policies and practices at the organisational level to help support the wellbeing and mental health of staff during the pandemic and beyond
• Provide examples of best practice to help employers implement systemic, sustainable interventions.
Read MoreThis document aims to:
• Highlight the scale of mental health issues in the health and social care sectors
• Identify the occupational, organisational, and individual risk factors for poor mental wellbeing
• Raise awareness of the consequences of poor staff wellbeing for patient care, employers and the benefits for employers of taking action to provide additional support
• Highlight existing interventions and tools to aid recovery and inform a roadmap for change
• identify the barriers to accessing support among health and social care staff.
Read MoreThis document aims to:
• Highlight the features and implications of poor quality, precarious work
• Raise awareness of what ‘good work’ looks like and the wide-ranging benefits for the health and productivity of the workforce
• Provide guidance on how to improve the quality of work.
Read MoreThe document aims to:
• Raise awareness of the disproportional impact of the pandemic on marginalised groups and the implications for wellbeing and productivity
• Highlight the wide-ranging benefits of an inclusive workforce
• Provide organisations with resources that will help them address inequalities and build and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce.
Read MoreThis document aims to:
• Raise awareness of the implications of the pandemic for the ongoing work experiences and wellbeing of workers at different life stages. Focus is placed on younger and older workers, as they are disproportionately affected by the pandemic and the resulting economic downturn.
• Provide organisations with guidance to build actions and behaviours to support people at the start and towards the end of their employment lifecycles.
Read MoreOn September 1, 2021, Dr. Clare Rayner from the UK presented on Long COVID and implications for the workplace and Dr. Graeme Edwards from Australia presented on the emergence of the accelerated silicosis epidemic in Australia.
Read MoreView the recording of the Society of Occupational Medicine’s international webinar from June 29, 2021 on Occupational Medicine & Health Challenges in South East and East Asia.
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