Resources

• Case studies
• Links
• Free prototype Sickness Absence Recording Tool (SART)

General information

• HSG249 Managing sickness absence and return to work - An employers' and managers' guide - ISBN 9780717628827
• INDG397 Off work sick and worried about your job - Steps you can take to help your return to work - ISBN 0 7176 2915 5
• INDG399 Managing sickness absence and return to work in small businesses - ISBN 0 7176 2914 7
• WEB02 Working together to prevent sickness absence becoming job loss - Practical advice for safety and other union representatives
• Steps to manage sickness absence and return to work
• Example of what a written return to work policy could contain

Specific information

• Further information on Stress
• Further information on MSD
• Sickness recording classifications
• Tax rules and the purchase of occupational health support

Other useful free publications:

Equality and Human Rights Commission

• The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 - Code of Practice on Employment and Occupation

Information Commissioner’s Office

• The Employment Practices Code

HM Revenue and Customs

• What to do if your employee is sick

While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the publications their future availability cannot be guaranteed.

Research publications:

• RR 106 - Job retention and vocational rehabilitation: The development and evaluation of a conceptual framework
  Research by Middlesex Business School that highlighted the issues that employers will have to address to tackle rehabilitation and job retention in the workplace.
• RR 138 - Best practice in rehabilitating employees following absence due to work related stress
  Research by the Institute of Employment Studies that provided examples of how to encourage employees to return to work and to prevent a reoccurrence of their initial stress. The case studies in this report cover England, Scotland and Wales, with some specific advice for small and medium sized companies.
• RR 310 - Managing health at work - recording and monitoring information on sickness absence including work related
  Research by the Institute of Occupational Medicine into how organisations record the sickness absence of employees and, using this information, to develop and validate a suitable employer tool for recording and managing sickness absence.
• RR483 - Survey of tools and resources available to employers to manage, record and monitor sickness absence

Research by the Institute of Occupational Medicince that provides an essential guide to sickness absence recording software applications and services, and also to information sources and other resources for absence management. It is primarily written for UK employers and managers seeking assistance with recording sickness absence and understanding the issues involved in the management of absence in the workplace.