The Holland Safety Blog

How to Anticipate and Avoid Manual Handling Risk?

Manual handling injuries can have serious implications for the injured party and the employer. They can occur almost anywhere in any workplace.

Social Media- Scrolling into the Arms of Loneliness Rachel Zoe Murray

The Human Link We as humans are more connected to each other than ever thanks to smartphones, social media and the web, but at the same time, loneliness is a huge and growing problem.  The Cigna’s, 2020 Loneliness Index revealed social media has a major impact on loneliness with very heavy social media users significantly more likely to feel alone, isolated, left out and without comp...

4 Reasons to Road Test eLearning for your next Training Project

What is eLearning eLearning is a learning process based on formalised teaching with the help of electronic resources as opposed to the traditional classroom or lecture-based format. Teaching is undertaken remotely using digital platforms such as computers, tablets and the internet, in place of the customary chalk and board method of teaching. The term eLearning was coined by US learning guru...

Look after your Mental Health

Look after your Mental Health. These are certainly strange and unprecedented times. Much of the population are asked to stay at home and minimise contact with other people to help reduce the spread of COVID 19. What used to be a home can start to feel more like a stress prison.  With the new work environment, the onus may be on us to maintain our own psychological wellbeing. Where the w...