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What is Stress and How Can Your Employer Help You?

Stress is defined by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) as ‘the adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them’. Stress is not an illness, but it can affect a person’s physical and mental health.   If stress is not correctly managed, it can cause: ‘burnout’ (physical and…

Guide to Military Musculoskeletal Injury Claims

The Women’s Engineering Society (WES) commemorates its 12th anniversary on June 23rd, 2025, for International Women in Engineering Day (INWED).   The platform aims to highlight the under-representation of women engineers globally, with only 16.5% of UK engineers being women in 2021. It promotes gender diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields and…

Veterans’ Loneliness Awareness Week: Rebuilding Lives, Ending Isolation

Loneliness Awareness Week, hosted by Marmalade Trust, from 9th to 15th June. Aims to reduce stigma around the natural human emotion.   The UK Government plans to implement practical, cost-effective recommendations to address systemic issues and rehabilitation of life for those affected by loneliness. Highlighting the urgent need for increased awareness and support for UK…

Kindness at Work – it goes further than you think

Work can be a place where people are put under pressure to meet targets or hit deadlines which can cause periods of stress and anxiety – and in these times, kindness is crucial.   According to research, kindness not only creates a pleasant working environment, it yields positive outcomes for businesses. Whether you’re just starting…

International Men’s Day 2023 – 5 ways to support men at work

International Men’s Day is here to celebrate men and all they do in society, as well as raise awareness of the issues they face.   We want men to know that it is okay to talk and we are here to listen if they are struggling. Men can often feel the pressure to be ‘tough’…

What is Work-Related Stress and how to make a claim – Stress Awareness Day 2023

Stress Awareness Day is here to highlight how stress can affect your life in different ways and how you can get help.   Stress can affect people differently, whether that be at home, work, physically, or psychologically. Read part one of this two-part series here. Every person will have different triggers of stress which means…

Five ways to cope with stress every day – Stress Awareness Day 2023

Stress Awareness Day is here to recognise the impact stress can have on your physical and mental health, as well as highlighting ways to manage it at home and in the workplace.   Stress can be triggered suddenly, by one big anxiety-inducing event in your life or by lots of smaller things that are making…

Male suicide rates and possible factors

A recent article about the urgent need for charity funding to help stem alarming male suicide rates in the UK has us considering possible reasons behind the figures.   Every individual case is as unique as it is utterly tragic, but in this article we explore some of factors that may contribute to so many…

Long term sickness in the workforce, and possible causes

Long term sickness is a constant battle for both employees and employers alike.   So what may be contributing to the record numbers of long term sickness in the workforce? In this article, we focus on five factors that can have a negative effect on mental health.   Long working hours Long working hours are…

Mental health problems in the legal profession

Did you know? A study by the Law Society of England and Wales found that legal professionals are more likely to experience mental health problems than the general population.   The study found that 42% of solicitors reported feeling stressed or very stressed in the past year, with 34% reported having experienced mental health problems.…