A road to better mental health for HGV drivers
There’s a strong association between driving for work and mental health. A 2017 systematic review by the TRL (Transport Research...
There’s a strong association between driving for work and mental health. A 2017 systematic review by the TRL (Transport Research...
“I feel like I’ve been thrown to the sharks” Those were the words of a mental health first aider I spoke to recently. They’d been on the...
Did you watch the London 2012 Olympics? I don’t know about you, but I was blown away. As a nation we’d expected things to be a bit of...
The wise old saying goes, “A penny of prevention is worth a pound of cure”, and when it comes to mental health truer words were never...
A few years ago, I attended a Salsa party with intentions of wowing the world with my slick moves. Shock horror, I was absolutely awful...
Have you ever been in a situation where somebody has totally misinterpreted one of your emails? You know, completely got the wrong end...
Painful I don’t know about you, but I absolutely hate going into the shop TK Maxx. I avoid it like the plague as it’s my idea of hell in...
Build it and they ‘might not’ come One of the most recent studies into the usage of EAP’s (Employee Assistance Programmes) was done by...
Imagine the following scenario, you’ve put out an advert for staff to volunteer to be Mental Health First Aiders. Amazingly you get...
“Everybody has won, and all must receive prizes” The above is a well-known line from chapter three of Lewis Carroll’s ‘Alice’s adventures...
Do the following names mean anything to you? · Coniferophyte · Tracheophytes · Sphenophyte · Filicinophyta · Cycads · Angiospermophyta ·...
Karoshi! Pressure kills! We’ve all heard the headlines where individuals have been worked so hard, they’ve dropped dead. Did you know...
Does our mood affect our immune system? The short answer to this question appears to be yes. A research paper published in the journal...
On the run You’re being chased by a sabre tooth tiger, so your 'fight or flight' response kicks in, your pupils dilate, breathing rate...
A close shave In 2020 I started noticing patches of hair loss on my head. Within the space of 6 months, I’d lost 60% of the hair on my...
After a period of stress we get ill – everybody knows that It’s written in countless magazines and newspaper articles, so surely it must...
Stress or torture? Imagine a rat, immobilised, taped down and injected with substances. Or alternatively, mice, dogs, cats, rabbits, and...
Metaphorical not medical Stress isn’t a medical term, it’s a metaphor borrowed from the world of engineering, that was adopted by the...
Money well spent? How much money has your organisation spent on stress risk assessments and stress audits? Maybe nothing, or maybe...