Product Description

Employment law and occupational health: a practical handbook provides an essential guide to best practice for all occupational health practitioners. This readable guide to the law will help to ensure both business success and respect for individual employment rights. The cost of sickness absence can present major costs and business management problems to employers and safeguarding health is therefore vital to every individual and to all employers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #121742 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

Review
"Exploring all key issues in occupational health practice from pre–employment to termination of employment, it provides information on topics that include confidentiality, discrimination, drugs and alcohol problems, stress and counselling, maternity leave and working abroad – all very usefully backed up with a range of case studies, procedural checklists and templates for letters and documents."
Templeton Bulletin, Templeton College, University of Oxford, UK, July 2006

From the Publisher
* an accessible, practical guide to applying occupational health law in everyday practice
* for occupational health nurses and other occupational health practitioners
* addresses key employment issues from pre-employment to termination of employment
* includes case studies, procedural checklists, and template letters and forms

From the Back Cover
Employment law and occupational health: a practical handbook provides an essential guide to best practice for all occupational health practitioners. This readable guide to the law will help to ensure both business success and respect for individual employment rights. The cost of sickness absence can present major costs and business management problems to employers and safeguarding health is therefore vital to every individual and to all employers.

Employment law and occupational health: a practical handbook explores key issues in occupational health practice from pre–employment, through health surveillance and occupational health services to termination of employment. Topics explored include ethical and confidentiality issues, discrimination, data protection, working abroad, pregnancy and maternity leave, workplace policies, drugs and alcohol testing, stress, counselling, health surveillance and professional conduct rules.

Customer Reviews

An absolute must!
I bought this book because there have been significant changes in legislation in the last year. It has become a staple of my bookcase, an essential reference book for the new and experienced practitioner alike. It is written in an accessable format, and is well structured. Hot topics in Occupational Health and Employment Law are explained clearly, referenced sections are valuable for OH student practitioners, and for continuing education.I have recommended this book to my fellow students, and have suggested it form part of the essential reading list on my university course.

Author Review
This is a practical guide to the complex area of employment law and employee health. Our aim in writing this book was to provide an outline of the law, throughout the whole employment cycle, so as to provide a useful resource that has real and practical value.
We think it will be useful to doctors, occupational health nurses and other professionals, as well as HR and general management. Employers, whatever the numbers of staff they employ, will find this guide to be useful, readable and informative.