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Football, Marriage and other Health Concerns

June 20, 2014 by suefernandes

footballWatching the England match against Uruguay last night with my husband gave me a real-life example of stress in action. Stress is the feeling of being under too much mental or emotional pressure. You can feel anxious, irritable, have sleeping problems, muscle tension, pain, dizziness.

In our house the air was practically blue, the shouting at the TV began pretty much from the moment the match started.

Stress can cause your body to go into “fight or flight” mode, which means your body will release stress hormones into your system to deal with the threat. For people under constant stress those hormones can remain in your body, so whilst the stress itself may not seem like an illness it can cause serious illness if it isn’t addressed.

Spotting early signs of stress give you the opportunity to manage it effectively. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act, our employers are responsible for our Health, Safety and Wellbeing.

Work related stress develops because a person is unable to cope with the demands being placed on them. Stress, including work related stress, can be a significant cause of illness and is known to be linked with high levels of sickness absence, staff turnover and other issues. To deal with this the HSE have developed a series of Management Standards which can be found herehttp://www.hse.gov.uk/stress/standards/index.htm

HSE’s formal definition of work related stress is:

“The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressures or other types of demand placed on them at work.”

So yes, whilst the England team were under pressure last night, so were my ear drums and the rest of the house from the constant leaping up and down and banging on the furniture, good job it isn’t the Health and Safety at Home Act……..

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For our CIEH Stress Management course dates visit www.gsstraining.co.uk/CIEH 

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Kerry Jones, Managing Director, GSS Training http://www.gsstraining.co.uk

Filed Under: Blog, News

I chose to look the other way

May 21, 2014 by suefernandes

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After coming on a training course with us, one of our delegates sent us a poem about making choices and taking chances when it comes to the safety of others:

I Chose To Look The Other Way

I could have saved a life that day,

But I chose to look the other way.

It wasn’t that I didn’t care,

I had the time, and I was there.

But I didn’t want to seem a fool,

Or argue over a safety rule.

I knew he’d done the job before,

If I spoke up, he might get sore.

The chances didn’t seem that bad,

I’d done the same, He knew I had.

So I shook my head and walked on by,

He knew the risks as well as I.

He took the chance, I closed an eye,

And with that act, I let him die.

I could have saved a life that day,

But I chose to look the other way.

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Now every time I see his wife,

I’ll know, I should have saved his life.

That guilt is something I must bear,

But it isn’t something you need share.

If you see a risk that others take,

That puts their health or life at stake.

The question asked, or thing you say,

Could help them live another day.

If you see a risk and walk away,

Then hope you never have to say,

I could have saved a life that day,

But I chose, to look the other way.

A poem by Don Merrell

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Next time you see a colleague doing something unsafe, step in and you might just save a life.

Thanks to Brian Jolly for sending us the poem.

Filed Under: Blog, News

Do or do not, the danger of negative thinking

April 28, 2014 by suefernandes

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I had a great group of people on my 2 day health and safety passport course this week, but just like a lot of my other groups I watched them struggle with one particular type of question. I obviously cannot say what the questions are, but what I will say is that they involve the word NOT.

So if for example I was to ask a simple question;

A Risk Assessment does NOT:

a) Identify the hazard

b) Evaluate the risk

c) Eliminate every risk

d) Specify precautions

Would you have to read it twice to be sure of the answer?

If your answer is yes, it is because of the way our minds work. When we think, the process is normally unconscious, we become consciously aware of the result of the unconscious process, for example when a certain smell takes you back to a childhood memory , it is your unconscious mind (your storehouse of all your memories and experiences) that brought the memory to your conscious awareness. Our unconscious minds respond to triggers, emotions and metaphor, it doesn’t have direct use of language, because of that, the unconscious mind finds it difficult to process negatives. Your unconscious mind has to process the “thing” it doesn’t have a concept of “not thing”.

So when I have a delegate who comes in who hasn’t done a test for 30 years and is really worried, they say to me “I don’t want to fail” the message they are actually telling their unconscious mind is “I want to fail” and our unconscious will do it’s best to fulfil that request. They really need to tell themselves “I want to pass” and then their unconscious mind will do it’s best to fulfil that more positive request. But that is for another discussion.

Back to the test question, if a test question has the word not in it, then your unconscious mind will be confused (for that reason it is a tool purposely used in hypnosis). I tell my delegates, if a question asks you what does something NOT do, reverse it (Put your finger over the word NOT if you need to ) think about what it does and the one left over is going to be the right answer.

 

For the purposes of Health and Safety, it is worth considering, should we avoid do’s and don’ts lists which use phrases like  “do not cross the line” or should we be saying something more easily processed by all like “stay behind the line”.

 

Filed Under: Blog, News

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