Projects and case studies

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  • Lessons from the HSE Stress Management Pilot

    IES examined, for the Health & Safety Executive, progress made by employers in six key sectors with regard to their participation in the HSE’s Stress Management Pilot. The Stress Management Pilot was initiated in June 2005 and involved...

  • Evaluation of Healthy Workplace Solutions

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) commissioned IES to assess the effectiveness of specific elements of its Healthy Workplace Solutions intervention. This was designed to encourage a larger number of organisations in seven target sectors to...

  • Quality Assurance for the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions

    IES provided quality assurance services to the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. The Foundation publishes a range of information updates and larger comparative studies on its three Observatory websites,...

  • Evaluating the Duty to Manage Asbestos

    The Duty to Manage Asbestos Regulations are aimed at reducing exposure to asbestos amongst maintenance workers in commercial properties and the communal areas of domestic premises. IES was commissioned by the Health and Safety Executive to provide...

  • Workplace Health Gets a Boost for SMEs in Wales

    The HSE commissioned IES to evaluate a new pilot service aimed at providing free and impartial advice on workplace health to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) based in Wales. 'Workboost Wales' was a joint initiative between the Welsh...

  • What Works in Delivering Improved Health and Safety Outcomes?

    The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) commissioned a comprehensive assessment of what approaches work best to deliver HSE policies and objectives. This project also investigated how HSE programmes are influenced by research and how decision-making...

  • Why People Get in the Way of Change

    The NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement (NHSI) is the body that tasked with bringing about sustainable improvement within the NHS. The 'No Delays' team focused on how delays to patient waiting times (from referral to being seen by a...

  • Evaluating Workplace Health Connect

    The Health and Safety Executive has been piloting 'Workplace Health Connect'. This major policy initiative in part of England and Wales involves a national advice line with follow-up workplace support to help employers prevent and manage ill...

  • Constructing Better Health

    Construction workers have some of the highest rates of work-related illness of all occupational groups, estimated at 2.9 million working days lost in 2003-04. A further 1 million days were lost due to workplace injury within the industry. The...