Winning ways:
From the Sports Track to the Boardroom
In an increasingly competitive and evolving business world it is beneficial that your staff are fit, healthy and productive. Optima-life using Firstbeat HEALTH technology has adapted some of its sports performance tools so that winning ways created for sport, can now be adapted to optimise work performance and enhance health.
In many ways stress is important. However, stress in excess, with no recovery, is likely to lead to poor performance and poor health. Stress is now the highest cause for absence from work and also has clear links with other medical conditions that may also lead to absence.
Firstbeat HEALTH not only demonstrates the balance between exercise, other stressors and recovery, but also shows what is happening and when. The case study below highlights how stress is taking its toll on the individual with no recovery during the first night. Light blue indicates recovery and red indicates stress.
The balance between stress and recovery reactions can be shown in a variety of ways.
As a scale:
Or over a day:
Statistics
Stress Related conditions are second only to MSI in the new order of work related, ill health conditions
Some of the causes: |
Research has shown that occupation and industry groups containing teachers and nurses plus professionals in the public sector have a high prevalence of work related stress . Work related mental illness is frequently reported by medical practitioners and public sector services such as police officers, prison officers and the armed forces. |
| In 2006/2007 it was estimated that around 530,000 individuals experienced work related stress that was making them ill. | |
| Each case of work related illness leads to an average of 30.2 working days lost | |
| This equates to 13.8 million work days in total being lost to stress Life expectancy is reduced by 15 years |
Source:
Health & Safety Executive
