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COVID-19: How to stay healthy while travelling

In efforts to raise awareness on the COVID-19 crisis, the World Health Organization provides tips on how to stay healthy, given that the virus is rapidly spreading in areas out of China.

#1 If you become sick while travelling, inform the crew and seek medical care early

It is important to rapidly inform the crew of any symptom so that they know how to handle the situation. Also, after informing the crew, it is advisable to share your travel history with your health care provider, so they know if...

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Coronavirus: 6 tips to stay protected and not infected

The Novel Coronavirus outbreak has made headlines from late December when the first victim of the virus was reported in Wuhan, a city in China. Spreading rapidly, the virus is the top priority for the shipping industry with many key players following the tips issued by the World Health Organization on protection and safety.

Common signs of the Coronavirus include

  • respiratory symptoms,
  • fever,
  • cough,
  • shortness of breath and breathing difficulties.

In more severe cases, infection can cause...

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Dental hygiene while at sea: How to relieve tooth pain

Toothaches can cause such an intense pain that no one is easy to withstand for long time. Especially for seafarers on duty, severe toothache is difficult to be treated with the medication means included in the ship’s medical chest. Considering that prevention is better than cure, a proper dental and oral hygiene while at sea is essential since an aching tooth may be the start for more serious issues, including abscesses, gum disease, and tooth loss. What is more, dental and oral health is an...

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Understanding Fatigue: How to avoid jet lag

Our body has its own internal clock, or circadian rhythms, that signals when to stay awake and when to sleep but when we have long flights where we cross several time zones, this clock finds it difficult to sync. In this case, our body clock functions in accordance with the original time zone, instead of the time zone where we travelled. As a result, travellers are affected by jet lag that can cause daytime fatigue, an unwell feeling, difficulty in staying alert as well as gastrointestinal...

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6 ways to mitigate external security threats

Currently, all eyes are on cyber security; but let’s not forget that physical security of one organization is equally important. Nevertheless, each organization needs to have proper safeguards in place to prevent a real threat and protect its employs and assets. Physical security refers to all actions taken in order to protect important data, confidential information, networks, software, equipment, facilities, company’s assets, and personnel.

External threats vary in accordance with the size,...

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Building Resilience: Taking Decisive Action

Making decisions is a part of life; either at work place or home, during socializing and adverse situations, all individuals, either consciously or subconsciously, are asked to take decisions. These could be personal or professional, important, radical or with minimum effect to our daily life.

Nonetheless, in every situation, our decisions may have lasting consequences, affecting ourselves and others in the short and long term. In this context, an effective decision making process can help us...

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10 ways to build resilience

Resilience may be defined as the ability to bounce back from a negative experience with “competent functioning”; in other words to become strong, healthy or successful again after a failure. The approach allows a person to recover from adversity and engage in life with hope and humor despite devastating losses on his/her path.

Studies have identified several factors to develop and sustain a person’s resilience. Above all, having a positive view of one’s self is an important mindset that helps a...

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Fixed vs Growth mindset: It’s time to change the way you think

There are two types of mindsets we can cultivate: one that embraces each challenge as an opportunity to learn something new, and one that avoids them, often out of fear of failure. People that avoid conflicts can be described as having a fixed mindset while those who see problems as interesting challenges have a growth mindset.

Many people have a fixed mindset because they believe the basic qualities like intelligence or talents are fixed traits and that these traits are responsible for success....

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Leadership is a marathon, not a sprint

Millennials have begun filling leadership roles in workplaces but faced with some common challenges like situations that test their skills, mindset but also their patience and consistency. Many of them strive to deliver performance, while others just enjoy the director’s position and sadly destroy their team’s performance. But what separates the first from the latter? Certainly, the way they handle daily challenges at workplace!

“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more...

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New ABS tool addresses cultural factors

ABS Group launched Cultural Cause Analysis (CCA), a next-gen root cause analysis methodology and risk management tool which maps process safety incidents aiming to eliminate cultural hazards.

The CCA took about 10 years to be developed, as ABS had to evaluate the data insights that identify the cultural factors that have played a crucial role to major incidents and figure the benchmark approach to more than a dozen culture assessment models.

Moreover, this methodology is based on 45 years of...

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