Work Safe and Well Blog
The work safe and well blog features up to date news and advice on current industry practices, our services and wellbeing news from around the world
Climb the ladders, avoid the snakes – a lesson in building resilience
My family spent the weekend in glorious Dartmoor. We were supporting my daughter and her team who were competing in the Ten Tors challenge, the ultimate resilience training. #TenTors19 The Challenge Ten Tors is in it's 59th year! It’s an endurance event held...
read more8 tips to keep your team motivated this summer
We have put together 8 ideas of how to get the best out of your team and stay productive during those long summer days at work, and even create some fun. Who knows, you might even end up looking forward to making pay while the sun shines?1. Hold your meetings...
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Connecting at the Bath & West
Last Saturday I was reconnecting with my family during a wonderful day at the 2019 Royal Bath and West Show. What a great way to start the month! We got the opportunity to spend the afternoon exploring the vast showground and experience the many sights, sounds and...
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Eat to Beat Diabetes
We all know the phrase 'you are what you eat', but how can we teach our young people to eat healthily to beat diseases like Diabetes, which affect nearly 4 million people in England? This week (1st-7th April 2019) is National Type-2 Diabetes prevention week, and...
read moreGet a better balance for Women at work: Celebrating #IWD2019
#IWD2019 logo March 8th is designated as International Women's Day (#IWD2019), and this year's campaign theme is #BalanceforBetter for women across the globe. It is also a time to celebrate women's achievements, whilst challenging unfair bias and encouraging a...
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Building Resilience through Peer Support
The World Health Organisation are asking us to mark #WorldMentalHealthDay by focussing on building mental resilience in our young people. They estimate that half of all mental ill-health starts before the age of 14, and suicide is the second leading cause of death...
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We Shall Overcome this Tricky Period
Work Safe and Well are proud to be supporting our local 'We Shall Overcome' event on Friday 12th October supporting the local foodbanks and the 'Tricky Period' charity tackling period poverty by enabling women and girls to access free sanitary products via the library...
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Save Lives by Taking a Minute to Talk About Suicide
World Suicide Prevention Day- Change the Conversation to Save Lives On World Suicide Prevention Day (#WSPD2018), let's commit to changing the conversation on suicide to save lives. By changing how we descibe suicide, we can help remove stigma and help those bereaved...
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Let’s Move for Better Business
Listening to the radio on the school run, I heard an advert from Public Health England (@PHE) as part of their Change4Life campaign talking about Obesity as the second biggest cause of Cancer. This is an entirely preventable health epidemic that can be dealt with by...
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Creativity is Therapy
Listening to the radio this morning, I was moved by the story of Stewart Hill, a former soldier who was critically injured in Afghanistan in 2009. With a life-changing brain injury, he found art and writing poetry as therapy during his recovery, and, in the process,...
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