28 October 2004 - New HSE Web Site Area - Managing Sickness Absence and Return to Work
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has launched a new web site area called: HSE - Managing Sickness Absence and Return to Work.
The aim of the web site is to guide employers, employees and representatives into working with each other to manage absences through long term sickness and to help those that are currently off with and illness, back to work. The web site takes a step-by-step approach and offers advice with various sources of help and advice.
The costs of long term sickness to UK business is over £3.8 billion a year and represents only 5% of absence cases, but accounts for 33% of working days lost. (CBI 2004)
There are also free leaflets offering guidance on this subject which can be found by clicking the following links:
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indg397 - Off work sick and worried about your job? Steps you can take to help your return to work
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indg399 - Managing sickness absence and return to work in small businesses
The new web site area can be accessed by clicking the following link: HSE - Managing sickness absence & return to work
