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09:15
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30 mins
- Future of Work
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
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30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
Gain a historical understanding of how automation has transformed work in the past, providing context for current changes. Learn to differentiate between human and machine intelligence, and how to lev ... -
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- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Richard will outline the contribution increased psychological flexibility makes to our ability to effectively cope with challenges in the workplace. Delegates will learn what psychological flexibility ...Chairperson
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09:30
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- Health and Conditions
Contemporary work-related risks to lung health in the UK will be summarised in a case-based presentation, taking into account challenges for occupational health professionals, employers and industry. -
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- Musculoskeletal Health
The world of work is changing with automation, digital technologies, remote working and the impact - good and bad - on MSK health needs to be considered.Chairperson
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10:00
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30 mins
- Future of Work
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- Culture, Values and Engagement
Anaïs will share her tools and award-winning case studies on how you can create deeper, more meaningful connections in your organisation. -
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- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
In this session, Dr Tehrani will focus on managing work-related anxiety, burnout, and stress in the workplace. She will offer insights into how organisations can implement strategies for workload mana ...Chairperson
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10:10
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
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10:15
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30 mins
- Health and Conditions
With someone hearing the words “You have cancer” every 90 seconds in the UK cancer touches so many of us. Join us for a heart-centered session on how to support colleagues facing cancer. In this sessi ... -
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- Musculoskeletal Health
An introduction to enable understanding of pain and disability at work relating to MSDs. It will progress to cover 3 themes -prevention, management and enablement For each theme the top 3 things that ...Chairperson
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10:45
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30 mins
- Future of Work
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45 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
In this session Lucy draws on years of experience of supporting people to identify personal strengths that help them to flourish, and crucially, any critical 'self-limiting beliefs' about themselves a ...Chairperson
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11:00
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30 mins
- Health and Conditions
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30 mins
- Musculoskeletal Health
This session will share the findings of primary research that has recently been completed, sharing both quantitative and qualitative perspectives from physiotherapists about their use of the fit note ...Chairperson
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11:05
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
11:30
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30 mins
- Future of Work
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
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11:45
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30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
Cultural competence is an important part of the biopsychosocial model which OH should use within their assessment. The assessment looks at the obstacles to remaining in or returning to work, as well a ... -
30 mins
- Health and Conditions
What if there's a silver lining to periods, PMDD, and menopause—untapped superpowers we've been missing at work? What if understanding hormones is the key to unlocking your team's hidden potential? Th ... -
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- Musculoskeletal Health
HSE have been busy looking at health topics in Inspections, including MSDs. Matt will provide a bit insight into what we've been up to, and then focus on how to risk manage MSDs with a look at some su ...Chairperson
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12:00
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
12:15
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30 mins
- Future of Work
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
The term suicide postvention refers to the actions taken by an organisation to provide effective support in a sensitive manner after a death by suicide. It aims to promote recovery and prevent further ...Chairperson
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12:30
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30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
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30 mins
- Health and Conditions
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30 mins
- Musculoskeletal Health
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12:55
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
13:00
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60 mins
- Future of Work
This session will explore the systemic factors that contribute to workplace wellbeing and health; and how to create the right conditions for sustainable high performance. We’ll discuss how to create a ...Speakers -
60 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Join our panel of leading mental health experts in conversation as they discuss this priority focus area of workplace health and wellbeing. You’ll have the opportunity to ask the experts your own ques ...
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13:15
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45 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
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- Health and Conditions
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- Musculoskeletal Health
Manual Handling (MMH) Ergo analyser is an innovative online training app, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) video technology to automatically provide ergonomics posture feedback to employees, as ...Chairperson
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13:50
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
14:00
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30 mins
- Health and Conditions
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30 mins
- Musculoskeletal Health
14:15
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60 mins
- Future of Work
This session provides a comprehensive overview of recent and upcoming changes in employment law, with a focus on their impact on health and wellbeing in the workplace. Delegates will gain insights int ... -
60 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
Join our panel of leading culture, values and engagement experts in conversation as they discuss this priority focus area of workplace health and wellbeing. You’ll have the opportunity to ask the expe ... -
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- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Join Emily and ManBassador Lead Neil Jones from Active Leeds as they present the ManBassador Programme, exploring why it's essential to engage men differently in workplace wellbeing. Through a focus o ...Chairperson
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14:45
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
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- Health and Conditions
Case study of using AI to support clinical practice development Understanding AI in occupational health: Gain insights into how AI can predict and prevent ill-health at work. Evidence-Based Practices: ... -
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- Musculoskeletal Health
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15:00
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
This session will cover the current scientific view of what moral injury is and how it may affect workers' mental health. Evidence based recommendations as to how to mitigate the impact of potentially ...Chairperson
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15:30
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30 mins
- Future of Work
The UK is spending over £6 billion on wellbeing, and yet we've never been so stressed, unhappy or have as many physical complaints. In this session, we'll be looking at what needs to change, and how w ... -
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- Culture, Values and Engagement
How to create the right environment for individuals to feel safe and well in work from research to practice. Supporting engaging leaders to create engaged teams. -
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- Health and Conditions
Roger will critically review approaches to the clinical assessment of HAVS and the clinical methods used. -
45 mins
- Musculoskeletal Health
• How preventative measures and approach can reduce staff sickness absence and thus cost saving and reduce departmental wait times • Taking a personalised approach to intervention strategies for indiv ...Chairperson
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15:45
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45 mins
- Best Place to Work
We've lost the art of good job design in HR and across organisations. Too many roles today are rigid and standardised, failing to harness the full potential of our diverse workforce. This has led to d ... -
45 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
This session explores the legal aspects surrounding mental health in the workplace, focusing on the responsibilities of employers and the rights of employees. Attendees will learn about key legislatio ...Chairperson
16:15
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30 mins
- Future of Work
This session will address key trends relating to the future of work, discuss how government, employers and employees may wish to respond to these trends and developments. Dr Christian van Stolk will p ... -
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- Culture, Values and Engagement
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30 mins
- Health and Conditions
The session will start with describing the experience of fatigue, differentiating this from tiredness and sleepiness. We will then explore the impact of fatigue on work, using real examples from indiv ...
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09:15
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
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- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
This presentation will focus on recent research findings related to the mental and emotional wellbeing of home workers particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. The presentation, including evidence r ...Chairperson -
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- Health and Conditions
The focus is on developing a deeper understanding of the phrase ‘I might look well but I don’t feel well’ and what it feels like to live and work with a long term condition. A discussion will be had a ... -
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- Neurodiversity
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09:30
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
Many organisations want to take a systematic approach to assessing, protecting, developing and supporting employee mental health and wellbeing. As a result there has been a rapid growth in the availab ... -
30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
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10:00
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Awareness and acceptance of mental illness has improved in recent years. But has this now gone too far? If so, who has taken it too far and why? If not which people should we be ensuring get diagnosed ...Chairperson -
30 mins
- Health and Conditions
This session will discuss the creation and development of the Civil Service Eating Disorders Network (CSEDN), a peer support network run by, and available to, all civil servants. We will discuss what ... -
30 mins
- Neurodiversity
Understanding Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD) in the Workplace: Neurodiversity Programme This presentation provides a deep dive into Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria (RSD), exploring its impact o ...
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10:10
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
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10:15
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
Policies exist to help organisations maintain standards, ensure a consistent and fair approach to decision making, and make explicit and contextualize an employers' legal obligations. Yet research sho ... -
30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
This session examines how organisations can go beyond surface-level diversity efforts and really embed inclusive practices into their culture, backed by measurable outcomes and data.Chairperson
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10:45
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
The psychological contract has become increasingly fragile in today’s fast-changing work environment. Recent studies show that between 50-60% of employees across various sectors report feeling that th ...Chairperson -
30 mins
- Health and Conditions
With alcohol harm costing businesses over £9bn annually, this presentation shows employers how to engage employees to reduce alcohol harms. From early identification of potential problems to placing a ... -
30 mins
- Neurodiversity
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11:00
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
This session explores the essential elements of effective workplace wellbeing policies, with a focus on legal compliance and practical implementation. Delegates will learn how to design and implement ... -
30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
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11:05
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
We have become adept at relating to our world in a ‘doing mode’; we attend to action, often focusing through a narrow, instrumental lens of short-term productivity onto targets, metrics, agendas and t ...
11:30
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60 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
Join our panel of leading EAP experts in conversation as they discuss the role and effectiveness of Employee Assistance Programmes within workplace health and wellbeing. You’ll have the opportunity to ...Speakers -
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- Health and Conditions
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60 mins
- Neurodiversity
Join our panel of leading neurodiversity experts in conversation as they discuss this priority focus area of workplace health and wellbeing. You’ll have the opportunity to ask the experts your own que ...
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11:45
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
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- Culture, Values and Engagement
This session will explain the importance and the positive impact male staff networks have on the health and wellbeing of male employees. It will outline their growing success and support employers in ...Chairperson
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12:00
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
12:15
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30 mins
- Health and Conditions
This session will explore the pain experience from a biological and psychological perspective and help employers to understand what it is like for someone who lives and works with chronic pain. There ...
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12:30
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
This session will focus on leadership’s role in building an inclusive culture and shares actionable strategies to boost engagement and retention.
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30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
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12:45
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
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30 mins
- Neurodiversity
Creating ND-friendly Workplaces • What are the key barriers to neuroinclusion in everyday worklife? • Creating a neuroinclusive workplace by establishing neurodiversity-friendly people processes • Tip ...
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12:55
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
13:00
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60 mins
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13:15
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
This workshop delves into the 7 Dimensions of Transformational Leadership, providing managers and leaders with actionable strategies to foster a fair, just, compassionate, inclusive, sustainable, and ... -
30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
A grounded framework for how teams truly engage, that managers can put into place tomorrow.Chairperson
13:30
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
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- Neurodiversity
13:50
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
14:00
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
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- Culture, Values and Engagement
14:15
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- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
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- Health and Conditions
HSE is running workplace noise focused inspections. This talk will tell you: What have our inspectors found on site? How well is workplace noise being controlled? What do our inspectors expect to see ... -
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- Neurodiversity
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14:45
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- Management and Leadership
Case study highlighting the successes and challenges of the crucial relationship between HR and OH. -
40 mins
- Best Place to Work
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30 mins
- Culture, Values and Engagement
The COVID-19 pandemic instigated widespread change to working practices: almost five years on, remote and hybrid working models are still available to many desk-based workers. One-fifth of the UK work ...Chairperson
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- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
This session offers an evidence-based overview of the behavioural science of human performance and effective self-care. It will challenge the assumption that workplace performance is static and will o ...Chairperson -
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- Health and Conditions
With an estimated 2.8 million people out of work, chronic sickness is becoming a chronic problem in the workplace. Or is it? With 1 in 4 in the UK living with one or more chronic conditions, is it tim ... -
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- Neurodiversity
Audience members will learn about the challenges of unidentified Autism from a late diagnosed Autistic. They will learn what Autistic masking is, and how this contributes to Autistic people being unid ...
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15:30
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30 mins
- Management and Leadership
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- Culture, Values and Engagement
Employees with long-term health conditions have high levels of unmanageable job stress, are more likely to experience presenteeism (due to pressure from their manager), and are more likely to feel tha ...Chairperson
15:40
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40 mins
- Best Place to Work
15:45
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30 mins
- Mental Health and Emotional Wellbeing
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30 mins
- Health and Conditions
Sickness absence management has been subject to creative manipulation since its introduction. This session will explore how work design can help managers understand what is happening and develop workp ... -
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- Neurodiversity
This session will look at the legal considerations surrounding neurodiversity in the workplace, focusing on employer obligations and employee rights under current legislation. Delegates will explore h ...
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