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Swine flu and mental health absences put pressure on businesses |
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Organisations are facing a double whammy of employee absences due to swine flu and mental health reasons, according to findings from the second Absence Risk Barometer, produced by leading absence management provider Active Health Partners (AHP). |
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AHP launches first definitive guide to calculating the risk of employee absence to business operations. |
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The Absence Risk Barometer quantifies the risk of absence in different companies, allowing organisations in different sectors to see how vulnerable they are to absence. The Barometer is the first publication of its kind to monitor trends in absence based on hard data. |
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New CEO and chairman at AHP signal ambitious growth plans |
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Leading absence management provider, Active Health Partners (AHP), is delighted to announce the appointment of Bruce Robinson as its Chief Executive Officer. Bruce replaces Ingolv Urnes, the company's founder, who will be stepping back from the day-to-day management of the business and joining the board in a non-executive role... |
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Catering For Brakes Sickness Absence |
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Andy Dagger, human resources director at Brakes, said: "This takes away a lot of the emotive issues we have when people call in sick because we are in a fairly labour intensive business. Before if a driver rang in and said 'I am not coming in', immediately the manager had a pressure problem and would say 'how am I going to cover that?"... |
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Council Finds Cure for Absenteeism |
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From our review, the clear thing that came through was that the best way of [dealing with] absence was to tackle it from day one and make sure employees were getting good health advice immediately when they became ill. [It was also important] for managers to have accurate information as to when employees were likely to be back"... |
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Cricket Fever Sees Nurses Bowled Over |
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Research shows that the number of bogus sick claims during such an event is high. Using the services of AHP these figures fall because employees are required to speak to a nurse to report their absence, which means they might think twice before making the call... |
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Dealing with Tomorrow's Risks |
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This lack of compliance, data assessment and robust system for taking corrective action leaves management wide open for litigation and heavy fines... |
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Employers Sick Of Absenteeism Have Found A Cure |
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Implementing a policy of early medical intervention deters those not genuinely ill and gives opportunity to advise sick employees about recovery and return to work. AHP's service will effectively reduce the cost and duration of the absence, as well as enabling consistency in management of absence across the organization, and providing quality information to identify trends and areas of concern... |
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Healthy Employees = Healthy Bottom Line |
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People spend a large amount of their time at work. If the businesses embrace and endorse a healthy lifestyle culture, they could become one of the key stakeholders in this entire effort towards active health"... |
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Nurse-Led Absence Recording Takes Off |
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Studies have shown that offering people advice and support in this way means that they are able to return to work more quickly. This eases the pressure on colleagues who have had to cover for them during their absenceÓ... |
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Nurses Receive Full Marks |
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Active Health Partners' satisfaction survey highlighted that 87% of employees strongly agreed that using Active Health Partners' service is less stressful than notifying their manager... |
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Replacing The GP Sick Note |
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Active Health Partners (AHP) was recently chosen to take part in a study which will evaluate alternative providers of sick notes provided by GP's, currently requested after 7 day's absence by employers for statutory sick pay purposes... |
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Stress is Biggest Cause of Absence - Reality or Myth |
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the HSE announced that work-related stress has overtaken Musculoskeletal disorders as the biggest cause of working days lost through injury or ill-health, yet the results of Active Health Partners' (AHP) Absence Index reveal that Musculoskeletal disorders remain the largest cause (12.2%) with mental health accounting for just 5.3% of working days lost... |
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Technology-Led Health & Absence Management |
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If the absence is due to sickness they will receive immediate medical advice. The nurse will record the absence and an SMS mobile text message will be sent out to the manager. The system that captures the absence data generates reports which managers have access to via a password protected web portal... |
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The Man Behind The OH Movement |
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How can you have discussions about stress at work without actually being able to quantify the problem?" says Urnes. He believes that he is helping HR leaders become more effective at board and CEO level... |
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Christmas Party Hangovers - A Pain in the Workplace |
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Is it all just harmless fun? AHP warns employees that there are dangers to their Health & Safety resulting from excessive drinking. Photocopying body parts may seem good fun (and it probably is!) but sitting on a photocopier could result in more than the party-goer intended - a visit to A&E!... |
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AHP warns employees: Don't get worried sick about next flu outbreak |
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There are clear differences between avian flu, seasonal flu and a pandemic that could kill millions - such as the 1918 Spanish flu that killed an estimated 20 to 40 million people worldwide," explained Dr. Cox at the recent emergency training session held for AHPs' nurses handling the high volume of calls from employees experiencing unnecessary anxiety over bird flu... |
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Underreporting of Casualties Following Buncefield Disaster |
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The hidden cost to business that this disaster will bring is alarming" comments Ingolv Urnes, CEO of AHP, "absence is costly and with the great number of people being affected by the disaster employers in and around London will experience an increase in the number of working days lost and a decrease in productivity levels... |
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AHP announces strategic partnership with leading insurer QBE |
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[QBE] are excited to be collaborating with another forward-thinking company [AHP], whose experience in providing medical support and injury management will enable QBE to offer clients an innovative product that the insurance industry has not yet seen... |
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World Cup to kick-off sickie epidemic |
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British businesses are set to lose almost £100,000,000 for every day England is in the World Cup, according to figures released by the UK's leading provider of absence management... |
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