NEBOSH Working with Wellbeing flashcards
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- Psychosocial hazard
- An aspect of work design, organisation or management that has potential to cause psychological or physical harm, such as excessive workload, low control or unclear role.
- Social support buffer
- The effect whereby supportive relationships reduce the impact of a stressor on health, rather than removing the stressor itself.
- Lone working control
- A planned measure to maintain contact and monitoring for workers without colleagues present, such as scheduled check-ins or automatic alert systems.
- Active listening
- Giving full attention to a speaker, reflecting back what was heard and withholding judgement, used to make a disclosure feel received rather than dismissed.
- Employee assistance programme
- A confidential employer-funded service giving workers access to counselling and advice, usually self-referral, used as a signposting route rather than a control measure.
- WHO aerobic guideline
- Adults should accumulate 150 to 300 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic activity weekly, or 75 to 150 minutes of vigorous activity, or an equivalent combination.
- Moderate intensity definition
- Activity at roughly 64 to 76 percent of maximum heart rate, practically recognised as breathing harder while still able to hold a conversation.
- Maximum heart rate estimate
- A rough population approximation of 220 minus age in years, used for intensity bands but with wide individual variation so not a precise personal target.
- Sedentary behaviour risk
- Prolonged uninterrupted sitting, which is associated with poorer health outcomes independently of whether weekly physical activity targets are met.
- Muscle-strengthening guideline
- Recommendation that major muscle groups are worked on at least two days per week, counted separately from aerobic minutes in activity totals.
- Graded return to activity
- A stepped plan that increases movement or work demand in planned increments, used after injury or absence instead of sudden full resumption.
- Mindfulness definition
- Paying attention to present-moment experience deliberately and with non-judgement, including awareness of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations as they arise.
- Meta-awareness
- The capacity to notice what attention is currently doing, such as recognising that the mind has wandered, which is the core skill trained in mindfulness practice.
- Attentional anchor
- A chosen object of focus such as the breath or a physical sensation, used as the reference point to return to when attention drifts.
- Mindfulness misconception
- The mistaken belief that mindfulness means emptying the mind; in practice a wandering mind is expected and returning attention is the exercise.
- Mindfulness practice dose
- Structured programmes commonly run about eight weeks with daily practice of roughly ten to thirty minutes, with benefit tracking practice frequency.
- Energy balance
- The relationship in which body mass changes when energy taken in from food and drink differs from energy expended through metabolism and physical activity.
- Free sugars limit
- Guidance that free sugars contribute no more than about ten percent of total energy intake, with further reduction toward five percent for dental health.
- Fibre target
- UK adult guidance of around thirty grams of dietary fibre daily, associated with digestive health and cardiovascular risk reduction.
- Caffeine half-life
- The time taken for caffeine concentration to halve, roughly five to six hours in typical adults, which explains why afternoon intake can disrupt sleep.
- Choice architecture
- Designing how food options are presented, such as placement and defaults, which shifts food selection more reliably than education alone.
- Dehydration effect
- Reduced fluid intake that impairs concentration and mood before strong thirst is felt, making water access at work a basic environmental control.
- Prosocial behaviour
- Observable action intended to benefit another person, which is reciprocally linked with wellbeing because helping tends to raise the helper's mood.
- Compassion fatigue
- Depletion of caring capacity arising from sustained exposure to others' suffering, treated as an occupational risk managed through workload and support design.
- Gratitude practice
- Deliberately noticing and recording benefits received, typically daily or weekly, which is associated with measurable improvements in mood.
- Incivility effect
- Low-intensity rude or dismissive behaviour that has disproportionately large effects on targets and bystanders, including error rates and intention to leave.
- Reciprocity norm
- The tendency for people to mirror the behaviour they observe, so leaders modelling kindness establishes the norm more than stated organisational values.
- Spaced practice
- Distributing study or training across separate sessions over time, which produces better long-term retention than the same total time in one block.
- Retrieval practice
- Learning by actively recalling information, such as self-testing, which produces stronger retention than rereading or highlighting because it strengthens memory access.
- Forgetting curve
- The pattern in which retention of new material decays rapidly after initial learning, with each spaced review flattening the decay and extending the next interval.
- Interleaving
- Mixing related topics within a study session rather than blocking one at a time, improving discrimination between them and transfer, though it feels harder.
- Psychological safety
- A shared belief that mistakes and questions can be raised without punishment, which is the precondition for learning and error reporting at work.