Wellbeing in the Workplace

Wellbeing in the Workplace

It is important to have balance in our working lives to ensure that we can maintain a good level of wellbeing. What is most important is making sure that organisations are able to support their staff to understand what wellbeing means and to ensure that we put systems in place to support it. Part of my own wellbeing during the day is to go outside, take a breather and get away from the constant requirements of the work that I do with clients. It provides a way of breaking up the day and the constant feeling of pressure we often find in working environments.

Conservative Risk Assessments

One of the things that tends to happen when we work in frontline service organisations – in particular service organisations like fire, ambulance, police and defence, is that often a conservative risk assessment is applied if a member identifies that something they experienced in the course of their work, has affected them negatively.