Projects and case studies

  • 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...

  • Black and Ethnic Minority Apprenticeship Experiences

    SummitSkills, the sector skills council for building and engineering, has identified in its Action Plan the need for more research to help them in their efforts to increase the diversity of the workforce in the building services engineering sector...

  • 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,...

  • Evaluation of West Midlands Regional Coaching Pool

    The West Midlands Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership commissioned IES to conduct an independent external evaluation of its coaching pool activities. IES explored the outcomes of the coaching in terms of performance improvement on the...

  • 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...

  • Describing the Radiography Workforce

    A joint project between the University of Hertfordshire and IES was run to identify and quantify the different healthcare environments in which the radiography workforce functions. It quantified the radiography workforce within the career...

  • Coaching, Women, and a Seat on the Board

    IES worked with the Foundation of Coaching (New York) to examine issues relating to the coaching of senior women managers, looking in particular at the reasons why women decide to, or decide not to, apply for board-level positions.The research...

  • Excellence in Further Education

    IES undertook this project on behalf of the Quality Improvement Agency (QIA). The aim of the research was to review the roles and purposes of the range of existing awards that recognised, rewarded and transfered excellence within the further...

  • 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...