Author: Sarah Piddington

Wellbeing, Health and Safety: How Your Brain Works at Work – Part 3, The Limbic System In Part 2 we discussed the importance of saving mental activity for important tasks by avoiding other high energy consuming conscious activities such as emails – e.g. do the important tasks first, when you’r...

Wellbeing, Health and Safety: How Your Brain Works at Work – Part 2, The Prefrontal Cortex   Few of us realise the limitations our brains have or how that affects us daily. In Part 2, Sarah explains how a really little area of our brain plays a major role in our everyday lives.   The [&h...

Here Sarah explains what stress is, what employers can do to help protect their people, and how to prevent stress becoming an issue. Get management commitment Ensure that your managers understand that the physical and physiological effects that people suffering from stress experience do have an adve...

In this video, Sarah discusses some of the best ways that we can combat stress. Below are some of the ‘greatest hits’ from the video. Exercise Exercise is great for reducing stress as it elevates production of endorphins: the powerful neurotransmitters dopamine, serotonin and norepinep...