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Bad bosses may damage your heart
Cathy Ross, cardiac nurse for the British Heart Foundation, said: ... "Feeling undervalued and unsupported can cause stress, which often leads to unhealthy behaviours such as smoking, eating a poor diet, drinking too much alcohol and not getting enough exercise - adding to your risk of developing heart problems. "Being fit and active can give you the double benefit of busting work stress and boosting your heart health at the same time." Although I do agree with what you say Andrew, the paper should be read first, I also know from experience that there are many man...
Comment | 27 Nov 2008
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Bad bosses may damage your heart
...perience yet as the human psycho-physiology operates withing ranges that are relative to the internal environment of the individual, as life meets with one's genetic make up if stress were to be defined as a specific syndrome inducing non-specific changes within an organism in response to demand it may be taken more seriously in terms of foreseeable risk that requires reasonable prevention and/or mitigation. Evolution may have provided an excellent survival startegy through the GAS process initially building a degree of resilience to stressors through using the fight/flight response to better ...
Comment | 2 Dec 2008
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Bad bosses may damage your heart
Thank you both for these responses. It is clear that your understandings of stress are deeply rooted. A person's understanding of stress contributes to self protection and at the same acts as a risk factor and as a maintaining factor. So, I dread to challenge the potential protective effect even if the goal was to allow the interrruption of an unhelpfu...
Comment | 28 Nov 2008
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Bad bosses may damage your heart
...daptation whether individuals coping strategies will include self-medication (alcohol, drugs, eating disorders) or other self-destructive behaviours or psycho-social impairment often associated with sleeping disorders compounding their ability to manage or maintain normal relationships. Stress may be non-specific but nontheless continues to induce changes within an individual in response to demand that if unmitigated will result in early death as the ultimate escape where fight or flight have been excluded as survival options.
Comment | 28 Nov 2008
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Bad bosses may damage your heart
Before deciding what meaning to attach to the research paper, wouldn't it be a good idea to read it? Was the association corrected for trait? How strong was the association? Confidence limits? Other confounders assessed? Statistical power... I see from your comment that you associate the report with injustice, poor communication skills, bullying, failure to follow procedure. Which of these was assessed in the research paper? The next problem is deciding whether the apparent causal factors have a rational mechanism linking them to the harm observed...
Comment | 27 Nov 2008
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Bad bosses may damage your heart
Conclusion - victims fault again for not being fit enough to withstand long term affects of "workplace injustice" presented or manifested in poor management with poor interpersonal communication skills who remain unsupported and left to cause untold collateral damage to peers, staff and company bottom line. 08BULLYING shows little sign of positive solution focused experience by the majority and just, for me, affirms the total disregard employers have for their HR Kit as they continue to turn a blind-eye to Friendly Fire of omission to deal with poor interper...
Comment | 26 Nov 2008
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Same old: has health and safety really changed after the Young review?
...update | Case law hR case law Implications of the latest HR case law for employers ... Man who ran whilst off sick found guilty of fraud A London council worker who took part in running competitions whilst off sick from work has been found guilty of fraud. Matthew Thomas was signed off sick with a bad back from November 2007 until his resignation in June 2008. During that time he was paid sick pay totalling £13,892.12 after telling his employer he had fallen off a ladder and injured his back. However, in February 2008, it is alleged that he raced in the Birmingham Athletic Games and in March 20...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2010
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ETs on the rise
...lth and safety. 22 NO NASTY SHOCKS Sara Bean meets Paul Caddick, Operations and Technical Director of the newly formed services provider, PHS Compliance. 45 END NOTE teChniCAL 38 THE DATA HSE: A recent prosecution demonstrates the extent to which designers under CDM can be held responsible where bad design is an important contributory factor to a workplace fatality. THE CLAIMANT THE EMPLOYER WITNESS A WITNESS B WITNESS C eMPLOyMent uPdAte 13 NEWS More on Government plans to reduce excessive regulation; and time is called on the Default Retirement Age. The suggestion that accidents don'...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2010
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Soap star: The hygiene special issue
... Workplace law and praised the firm for its dedication to keeping facilities managers updated on the law and practice of managing the workplace during the last decade. Workplace law group's managing Director, David Sharp, was delighted at the event's success: "in the middle of a recession, and with bad weather looming, we thought there perhaps couldn't have been a worse time to be celebrating our tenth anniversary conference especially as this was the first time we made our dinner a black tie occasion. "but how wrong could we have been? this year's event brought a real spirit of togetherness,...
Magazine issue | 3 Mar 2009
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How much does it cost to kill someone at work?
...t stand on a chair to change a lightbulb, put safety shoes and safety specs on when you're strimming the lawn -- and driving safety. The big problem with lots of companies is they will hope that's a magic bullet... ... and that by doing behavioural safety quickly their problems will be solved. The bad news is a good behavioural safety programme is an ongoing thing, and it's something you need to work at and follow up and assess and monitor and facilitate indefinitely. took their accident figures and over the next 8-10 years cut them to a fifth of historical levels. They did that across the coun...
Magazine issue | 1 Sep 2007
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No smoking? Employers face the costs of kicking the habit
...m Organisation for the Right to Enjoy Smoking Tobacco -- supported by the tobacco companies and the ardent smokers. In the anti-smoking corner, there is ASH -- Action on Smoking and Health which, along with Government bodies, the medical profession and the non-smokers, believes that smoking is a bad thing that should be discouraged and even banned. In the middle, when it comes to smoking at work at least, there is the employer, and perhaps a rump of employees who either smoke and wish they could give up, or don't smoke but don't mind if other people do as long as it doesn't affect them. There ...
Magazine issue | 1 Apr 2005
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Face facts: how much do you really know about disability legislation?
...oduce the first issue of Workplace Law Magazine, which incorporates the long-running and extremely successful Facilities Management Legal Update journal. Workplace Law provides employers with the inside track on how to comply with changes to the law, and on how other companies are coping good or bad. The new format is our latest innovative approach to helping over 45,000 UK employers to keep tabs on employment law, health and safety, and premises management. I hope you like it: I would love to hear any feedback on the new format or comments about any of the topics we have covered in this issue...
Magazine issue | 1 Oct 2004
