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Dr Carolyn Yeoman at Safety & Health Expo: “Companies must start to manage wellbeing like they manage safety”

14th February 2019

Organisations need to assess the risk for wellbeing in the same manner as they currently assess the risk to safety, according to Dr Carolyn Yeoman, Operations Director at OCAID Wellbeing. Speaking at the Safety & Health Expo, Dr Yeoman said firms need to “demystify stress” and instead take an approach to wellbeing “that we know already works for safety”. “Stress is to wellbeing what accidents are to safety,” said Dr…

The IQ Academy Podcast from ‘Lunch and Learn’ Webinar with Dr Carolyn Yeoman

11th February 2019

Thoughts

Wellbeing is an overused term which means all things to all people and it tends to be ill-defined and misunderstood. It’s often the ‘soft and fluffy’ side of wellbeing which is the focus of interventions and whilst such interventions are beneficial to individuals, they’re unlikely to result in long-term sustainable organisational effects. Organisations need to address wellbeing in the same way as they address safety, by identifying and eliminating the…

Top 5 Tips For Organisations To Take Well-Being Beyond The Fruit Bowl

8th February 2019

Thoughts

In the SMP #018 podcast with Dr Carolyn Yeoman and Sonni Gopal discuss how Organisations can address and improve well-being at work to take it “beyond the fruit bowl”. But, what does that mean? Carolyn and Sonni put forward 5 tips that can be easily incorporated within the existing management systems framework (based upon the Plan-Do-Check-Act approach). There is nothing fancy here but really practical advice based upon expertise but…

Identifying and Tackling Stress in the Workplace: The OCAID Group announces the availability of StressFactor

5th February 2019

OCAID News, Thoughts

Scale of the issue Latest figures (published October 2018) indicate that stress, anxiety and depression related absenteeism equates on average to 25.8 days per employee per year, 11.6% of a full time equivalent. Professional occupations were the area that was the most badly affected. Given that the UK is already well down the list of nations for employee output this potentially avoidable loss has significant impact on employees, organisations and…

Wellbeing at Work ‘Lunch and Learn’ Webinar from IQ Academy

26th September 2018

OCAID News

The importance of wellbeing at work and its relationship to safety, leadership and engagement will be the focus of this month’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ webinar from the UK’s IQ Academy. Dr Carolyn Yeoman, operations director of OCAID Wellbeing, will present the 30-minute ‘Creating Wellbeing’ webinar from 12.30-13.00 on Thursday 27 September 2018. Yeoman has significant experience in the health, safety and wellbeing field and has successfully ran her own business…

Does your Job Title match your job?

15th May 2016

Thoughts

On the face of it, this might sound like a no-brainer with an obvious answer: “Yes, of course”. So, a second question — should it? Or rather: Should the job be thought of differently and hence the title need to be adjusted? Here’s why — Language is a key part of culture so how an organisation chooses to label particular functions can give us a significant clue to the culture of…