COEH (Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health)

Watch this years Lane Lecture 2022 - Have Workplace Studies had their day?, with Guest Speaker Professor Nicola Cherry

Lane Lecture 2022 - Have workplace studies had their day? With guest speaker Professor Nicola CherryLecture and Q&A session

We've had a wonderful start to the year with the semester launch for our year 2 postgraduate students this morning!

Are you looking to take the FOM DOccMed? If so, we still have some places on our Occupational Medicine CPD course! This 6 month course will prepare you for the DOccMed examination and enhance your knowledge on health and safety at work. The deadline for March intake is 31st March 2022. Please see more details via the link below:

CPD in Occupational Medicine | University of Manchester Learn about the CPD in Occupational Medicine course at The University of Manchester's Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health.

Our last launch event of the semester finished earlier today. We've had a wonderful few days on zoom with our new postgrad students! Welcome everyone, we hope you are excited to start your courses!

Congratulations to Jans who has received an award for best MSc Occupational Hygiene student on our programme from the British Occupational Hygiene Society for 2020/21. Well done Jans!

Our 3rd year MSc students are about to embark on their dissertations. We've been hosting a virtual 3 day dissertation workshop to ready them to undertake this piece of work. Check out their smiling faces below!

We are still accepting applications for our MSc courses until 30th September for both the full and part-time options:
MSc Occupational Hygiene - http://man.ac.uk/JKT8uh
MSc Occupational Medicine - http://man.ac.uk/8pQPtN

Are you, or someone you know, interested in gaining an occupational health qualification? There is still time to enrol in our MSc in Occupational Medicine or MSc Occupational Hygiene courses for September 2021 entry, now available as full time course (1 yr) as well as part-time (2 or 3 years). Check out further details via the links below:

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/07886/msc-occupational-medicine/

https://www.manchester.ac.uk/study/masters/courses/list/07884/msc-occupational-hygiene/

MSc Occupational Hygiene (2021 entry) | The University of Manchester Our MSc Occupational Hygiene course show you best practice in the evaluation and control of occupational health hazards for worker health protection.

Our new paper "Risk factors associated with respiratory infectious disease-related presenteeism: a rapid review" is now in pre-print in the MedRivx database (link below).

The paper gives evidence for workplace pressures that leads to presenteeism and their relevance to the risk of respiratory infectious disease (RID), including COVID-19. It also gives recommendations for workplace policies that can be used to reduce RID-related presenteeism.

Read the paper here:

Risk factors associated with respiratory infectious disease-related presenteeism: a rapid review Background: Workplace transmission is a significant contributor to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) outbreaks. Previous studies have found that infectious illness presenteeism could contribute to outbreaks in occupational settings and identified multiple occupational and....

Good morning! Today is the second day of the CPD induction sessions. This morning we've got some more introductory lectures this morning about risk assessments, musculoskeletal health and occupational ethics. In the afternoon we'll be exploring the resources that The University of Manchester has to offer and taking a look at our online virtual learning environment! One of the great things about our courses is they can all be completed via distance learning - on this course we have attendees from all over the UK and abroad, including Trinidad & Tobago, and Gibraltar.

Welcome to all our new CPD Occupational Medicine students who are starting today and attending the induction session on Zoom!

We started off with a breakout to discuss why students were doing the course and key emerging issues in the field of occupational medicine. Of course this included COVID itself, as well as knock on impacts such as skin disease due to alcohol gels, musculoskeletal issues associated with working from home and changes to mental ill health.

Are you a delivery worker in the UK, over the age of 18? Get involved in some research today and complete our COVID-19 survey. (Link below!)

Preliminary results of a social contact survey find that delivery workers can benefit from better protection from COVID. We at The University of Manchester and Lancaster University have been conducting a research study to collect information on work contacts made by couriers in the UK. Pre-peer-review results show that delivery workers cannot avoid social contacts at all times, some continued working with COVID-19 symptoms because they couldn’t afford not to, and over two thirds of the food and groceries couriers surveyed said they did not receive statutory sick pay if unwell, suggesting current government and private schemes to help self-employed workers should go further.

We are looking to recruit further participants to ensure we collect as much data as possible. This study is open to any home delivery worker in the UK, over the age of 18. Please share and tag anyone you know who may be interested! Please visit the site below and select "Take the Delivery Driver Survey".

CoCoNet Study By better understanding how social contact patterns are changing in the UK, we can improve predictions of COVID-19 transmission.

Congratulations to our student Kyla Brown for achieving the highest taught average mark for the 19/20 year on the Occupational Medicine programmes!