We spend approximately one-third of our adult life at work. Thus it is common to pick up habits there and unfortunately not only the good ones. While we are doing our best to meet the workplace requirements we often forget about...
Written by: Spela Bednjanic, BA Psychology In a fast-changing world and highly demanding work cultures around the globe, success is not measured only by the longer hours at work or extra commitments and tasks someone will take on. With deadlines, constant...
Written by: Spela Bednjanic, BA Psychology With a pile of papers, a long to-do list, phone ringing, boss waiting for you to complete the work, you can get quickly overwhelmed. Practicing mindfulness in the workplace is important because as we do...
Written by: Florence Davis Every organization should have a workplace wellness program that’s aimed at improving the health and overall well-being of their employees. For one, having wellness programs help workers adopt behaviors that lead to a healthier life, and this...
Welcome ISO 45003! Let me start with a story from China of a health and safety consultancy firm I was working with. I was holding training for HSE managers on how to address psychosocial risks at the workplace. One of the...
The usual stressful events that happen daily should be bearable by most people. Stress becomes a problem when such events start to pile up. When this happens, a person who is over-subjected to stress can become chronically stressed. Chronic stress...
Happiness is a goal every one of us would like to reach. As simple as it seems to be happy in our private life, we easily get overwhelmed by the stressful tasks at work. How to keep a positive attitude and...
How to smartly manage stress is a universal question and concern of workers and employers globally. It is easy to manage stress at the workplace if we do it smartly. Organizations are putting so much effort into creating a safe...
Written by: Vojko Strojnik, Ph.D. A circular workout is most commonly used as a mild form of a strength workout. It is used when we want to achieve relatively large muscle strength, but we are limited by time, space, energy, and...
Dieting causes the same response of immune system as really strong stress. Why is it so? When dieting, our organism reacts to lack of sugar by starting the production of stress hormones to decompose fats. These decomposed fats are then transported...