Salt plays an important role in our everyday nutrition, but too much (or too little) salt can cause health troubles. For example, doctors advise people with raised blood pressure to reduce salt in their meals. Let's see which salty foods...
Good habits are the key to a healthier and happier, more productive and successful life. Every day we see or hear about habits we should build to achieve personal or professional improvements. Mostly they are like "running 3 times a week", "drinking...
Workplace well-being and its effect on employee productivity have been researched a lot lately. But it's not only about health and safety. It is also about working conditions that allow employees to be happy. In 2012 the first country in the world...
New Year's Eve and other holidays that are approaching at this time often make us feel guilty. But not because of the wrong gifts we gave to our beloved ones, but mostly for the heavy food and alcohol indulgence, connected with...
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, a 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...
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 creates...
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 does...