Mental Health and the Workplace Mental ill health affects 1 in 4 people in Northern Ireland and can present itself in many forms, from stress and anxiety to depression and bipolar disorder. Poor mental health is one of the biggest issues in the workplace today where between 10% and 25% of fulltime employees may be experiencing mental ill health. Workplace factors such as...
Greater Newry Business Awards 2017 On Thursday 28th September, the Health Matters team attended the Greater Newry Business Awards 2017. The event was held at the Canal Court Hotel, Newry and was attended by over 500 guests from a large number of businesses in the Newry area. Mark Simpson from the BBC was our host for the evening where awards were...
We are delighted that Health Matters’ brand new premises in Belfast city centre officially opened for business last week. Over the course of our opening week we carried out almost 30 occupational health clinic appointments as well as 9 Health and Safety training courses! Our building is 3000 sq. ft. based in the centre of Belfast and consists of occupational health clinics...
Federation of Occupational Health Nurses of the European Union - FOHNEU Health Matters’ Managing Director Mary Doran recently attended the 45th board meeting of the Federation of Occupational Health Nurses of the European Union (FOHNEU) in Stockholm, Sweden last week. Mary is the representative for Ireland within this organisation. Current President of the FOHNEU Dr. Henriett HIRDI (Hungary) chaired this event. Attendees were from...
Occupational health is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the relationship and interaction between health and work; namely how an individual’s health affects their ability to work and how the work affects their health. Effects of health on work Fitness for Task: assessing an individual’s fitness for the role they will be performing. This may be to standards that...
Occupational health (OH) is a branch of medicine that is concerned with the relationship and interaction between health and work; namely how an individual’s health affects their ability to work and how the work affects their health. This is very relevant to the work done by Logistics companies where fitness to drive and the ability to perform heavy lifting is important...
One in three people in the UK are living with high blood pressure, although at least 5 million people are not diagnosed. High blood pressure shows no symptoms but if it is undiscovered, could lead to heart attacks and strokes. Blood Pressure Week aims to encourage people (especially those over 40) to get their blood pressure checked, potentially saving thousands of lives...