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----------------------------------------------------------------- In This Issue ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Stress Busting Solutions! 2. Management features of O-LAS 3. New EssentialSkillz Customers 4. Customer Testimonials 5. OHSAS 18001 Solution 6. Around the globe odd-bits ----------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Stress Busting Solutions! ----------------------------------------------------------------- EssentialSkillz Stress Busting Solution allows any organisation to cost-effectively measure and analyse stress on a company-wide basis. Our solution has 2 key elements: 1. EssentialSkillz Stress Risk Assessment allows organisations to conduct surveys in line with Health and Safety Executive's Stress Management Standards. Questions can be modified easily by any organisation, and our management system (O-LAS) reports the compiled results. Individual results are fully confidential, and automatic email reminders from O-LAS drive a completion rate of over 90%. Once an organisation has pinpointed key areas of concern, they can then set about tackling the sources of stress with intervention measures. In the case where an organisation has already organised 'Stress Busting' activities, our stress survey can be easily customised to measure stress levels pre and post those activities in order to gauge their effectiveness. With the problem areas identified the intervention budget can be targeted much more effectively. 2. EssentialSkillz solution can include a 40-minute stress training element designed to tackle the stigma associated with Stress and how to manage it. It's proven that training goes a long way towards reducing the number of Stress complaints, as employees who understand what stress actually is are better able to help an organisation identify the areas that will benefit from intervention services. To request a FREE evaluation of our training and/or the stress survey, please complete our online form. Alternatively why not download EssentialSkillz brand new STRESS screensaver FREE from our website. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Management features of O-LAS ----------------------------------------------------------------- EssentialSkillz dynamic Online Learning & Assessment System (O-LAS) is the most advanced system in the market. Once employees log in to O-LAS they are provided with access to their individual learning programme. O-LAS tracks their progress and maintains a comprehensive record of their achievement. Users can view their record, print certificates, and when they log out, O-LAS retains their progress allowing them to pick-up where they left off when they next log in. Some of the management features within O-LAS include: 1. Schedule online Health & Safety training & risk assessments months in advance! Phase your training activity over a period of time by setting future dates on which individuals & groups of employees will complete their training requirements. O-LAS can be easily configured to automatically inform employees of course enrolment, at pre-set dates, and send reminder emails to drive completion rates of 90%+. Use this function to schedule training a year or more in advance. To find more about O-LAS management features, please complete this online form: http://www.essentialskillz.com/evaluate.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- 3. New EssentialSkillz Customers ----------------------------------------------------------------- EssentialSkillz provide solutions to a wide variety of leading organisations such as Rolls-Royce plc, Heineken, Boston Scientific, and the European Bank. We are delighted to welcome the following new customers on board: - Volvo - Jagex - Beam Global - Caunton Engineering - MASH Marketing - A.C. Nelson & Co. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 4. Customer Testimonial ----------------------------------------------------------------- "The training modules were found to be excellent, comprehensively covering each topic." The Royal Institute of Public Health ----------------------------------------------------------------- 5. OHSAS 18001 Solution ----------------------------------------------------------------- TPA Limited A cutting edge online self assessment tool has been developed by TPA Limited, which will give organisations an opportunity to complete a gap analysis against the OHSAS 18001:1999 specification. Benefits: - Gap analysis against OHSAS 18001, provides a detailed report and action plan - Saves time, the self-assessment can be completed in less than half a day - Internal audit tool for existing 18001 certified organisations - Satisfy customers and suppliers - Simple and easy to use - 60 days to complete the questionnaire TPA Limited have an ISO 14001 web based self assessment tool and provide e-solutions for OH&S Management Systems, e.g. virtual library and your own safety management system available to all your employees with searchable text. Visit TPA Limited at www.ohsas18001audit.co.uk, and find out if you would be certified against OHSAS 18001. Only £395! ----------------------------------------------------------------- 6. Around the globe odd-bits ----------------------------------------------------------------- Drivers who use mobile phones are as bad as drunks behind the wheel ! Researchers from the University of Utah have found that people who talk on their mobiles are like many people who have been drinking, in that they did not believe themselves to be affected. Their study is published in the northern summer 2006 issue of Human Factors, the Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society. The researchers used a driving simulation device for their study, in which they studied 40 volunteers who used a driving simulator four times - while not distracted, using a handheld mobile phone, using a hands-free cell phone and while intoxicated to a 0.08 per cent blood-alcohol level - the average legal level of impairment in the United States - after drinking vodka and orange juice. Motorists who talked on either handheld or hands-free mobile phones drove slightly more slowly, but were 9 per cent slower to hit the brakes, and varied their speed more than drivers who were not distracted. Drivers with an 0.08 per cent blood-alcohol level drove a bit more slowly than both the drivers who were not distracted and telephone users, yet more aggressively. Three study participants rear-ended the simulated car in front of them. The researchers concluded that "Driving while talking on a cellphone is as bad as or maybe worse than driving drunk.”. Story compliments of: 'Adventures in Ergonomics' from enricosmog ergonomic practitioners |
