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How to build a carefully considered health and safety strategy for your business

Strategy Driven

Furthermore, people working in all industries could potentially develop work related stress if an effective work-life balance is not implemented. This might include first aid items particularly relevant to your business, such as treatment for chemical burns. Ensure that you have a well-stocked and comprehensive first aid kit.

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9 Things Your Business Needs for Protection

Strategy Driven

Additionally, ransomware attacks are on the rise at the cost of approximately $6 trillion per year to companies worldwide. Such on-site treatment includes first aid boxes and specialized care such as eyewash stations in industrial areas where shrapnel or chemicals are a risk. It would help if you considered managed IT services.

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Risk Management Solutions For Your Business

Strategy Driven

And so, a backup solution is necessary (along with anti-virus software and IT systems) to prevent intruders and strategically prevent the stress that these issues shall cause you. Alongside this, there are other precautions you can take to prevent cost inducing damage to your premises that may cause accidents.

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What to Do When Work Stress (Literally) Makes You Sick

Harvard Business Review

Her doctors had trouble pinpointing the source of her stroke — after all, the vast majority occur in those over 65 — but they all offered their best guess: stress. In response, they release hormones and chemicals to speed up our heart rate, increase blood pressure and stimulate our muscles. Turning Stress into an Asset.

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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. do your “cost-benefit analysis&# and choose one of these options: Take It Accept the change with all of its good and bad components, and realize that it is your choice to stay. Did it offer us more positive or more negative? Here’s the thought.

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Guest Post: Tim Sanders

Ron Edmondson

These powerful chemicals give us feelings of profound joy, calmness and spiritual connection. We get as high as a kite, or gain the internal/chemical feeling of true Richness. In a surprising study back in 1956, stay-at-home moms had less emotional stress markers than the breadwinners, because their mothering gave them natural relief.

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Addicted to Your Smartphone, To-do List or Busyness?

Michael Lee Stallard

To put it simply, neurotransmitters are molecules that behave as chemical messengers in the brain. As opposed to the pleasure of anticipation via dopamine, these chemicals give us pleasure from sensation and emotion.” The effort to become a self-aware and better-balanced leader is well worth the cost. You May Also Enjoy: .

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