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...
One logical way to problem solving is to seek support. While it is logical to seek advice, don't forget that the final decision is still yours to make. It is typically easier to advise others how to react in a particularly...
Many organizations when conducting well-being or health assessment, are surprised by the fact that one of the main reasons for absence from work are musculoskeletal problems and pain. Sitting is quickly developing into a modern-day work disease. Work-related musculoskeletal problems...
Figuring out what can be done for occupational health and wellness we first have to know what can be the health consequences of office jobs. Office jobs usually require lots of sitting, working at the computer, psychosocial stress and other unpleasantnesses...