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Mental Health at Work: Life Doesn’t Stop at the Workplace Door
World Mental Health Day | 10 October 2026 Mental health doesn’t begin and end with the working day. We all bring our personal experiences, responsibilities and challenges to work. Equally, the pressures we face at work can follow us home, affecting our relationships, family life and overall wellbeing. This World Mental Health Day, we’re highlighting […]
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Welcome to Lucy!
Lucy Bowie joined Amalgamate in May as a Health & Safety Advisor, bringing experience from the brewing and distilling sectors and a strong understanding of high-risk manufacturing and production environments. Lucy’s approach is practical: understand the risk, make sure the right controls are in place and, importantly, make sure they work for the people […]
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Musculoskeletal Care: The Home Office
Introduction The current pandemic hasn’t only caused a wave of Covid-19 cases – it has also caused a wave in musculoskeletal disorders/conditions. Under the present circumstances, our working environment is continuously changing and businesses and organisations will need support in adapting to these changes. Below we’ll give you some tips on how to […]
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Taking care of employee and colleague wellbeing
Introduction Working during lockdown can be challenging for everyone – that’s why we need to be taking care of employee and colleague wellbeing, as well as our own. We’re being made more aware of the impact that quarantine and isolation can have on mental wellbeing. We need to look after ourselves, our friends, family, colleagues, […]
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Operational Update
As the situation surrounding COVID-19 continues to change daily. We would like to give you an operational update. As a business we doing everything we can to ensure we keep our team safe while continuing to deliver the quality of services expected by our clients. Following the latest advice from the UK Government we have […]
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Tackling Absence Through Health and Wellbeing Strategies
In 2017 an estimated 131.2 million working days were lost due to sickness or injury in the UK. That works out to be the equivalent of 4.1 days per worker. The most common reason for workplace absence was minor illnesses, like coughs and colds, which accounted for around 34.3 million days lost. This was followed […]
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Improving Productivity by Investing in Wellbeing
Productivity in the UK ONS statistics in 2018 showed that ‘UK workers are taking the lowest number of sick-days on record’. At the same time the ONS estimated that labour productivity, the amount of output produced per hour worked or per worker, had ‘fallen by 0.4 per cent in the first three months of 2018’. […]
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Sun Safety for the Summer
Most of us are probably pretty delighted with the current heatwave. It makes a lovely change from the usual rainy UK summer! But if there’s one thing British people are famous for, it’s getting over-excited at the sight of the sun. You know the drill – at the first sight of a bright blue sky, […]
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Women and Safety – how gender impacts health and safety
Women make up 42% of the workforce in the EU, however, historically there has been little focus on how gender and sex differences affect health and safety. Research studies have focused primarily on men, while excluding or ignoring women. But understanding the impact of gender and sex differences on people’s occupational health and safety can help to […]
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How a Fire Risk Assessment helps to protect your business
Why do you need a fire risk assessment? A fire in the workplace is the kind of risk that many businesses put off thinking about. It is a fairly rare occurrence, but if one happens, the effects can be extremely grave. Consequences could include death or severe injury, as well as loss of property, data, plant […]
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