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The Legionella pneumophila is a bacterium that can cause severe pneumonia (legionellosis) in humans with a 20% chance of death (Legionnaires' disease); this bacterium can also cause a flu-like illness (called Pontiac fever).

Maggie De Block launches campaign on burnout. The goal of the campaign is to inform people and provide the necessary tools for the prevention and detection of burnout. This allows people to orient themselves towards the right authorities for support.

Do the terms 'confidential advisor', 'training for confidential advisor' or 'supervision for confidential advisors' raise questions for you? Here is some information about the appointment, responsibilities and basic training. Confidential advisor, a challenging and very valuable role!

Most people sit too much, both during and before or after work. Numerous scientific studies compared employees with and without a sedentary profession. From these, five health benefits emerge for employees who move more.

Er is een éénduidig antwoord: Ja, maar een verkorte versie volstaat.

In the media, a lot of attention is rightly paid to stress and burnout. Burnout is, after all, much more than mere fatigue from work. It is an illness, a symptom of professional exhaustion, which cannot be equated with depression.

Flemings sit on average more than 8 hours a day. This prolonged sitting entails a number of health risks.
As an employer, you can apply several strategies to promote 'less sitting' and thus increase the well-being of your employees. A sit-stand desk, for example, can offer a solution.

This is determined in various places in the legislation.

Law of 4 August 1996 concerning the well-being of workers in the performance of their work and its implementing decrees;

Codex X.3 – Young people at work

Law of 3 July 1978 concerning employment contracts.

In Flanders, 3 people die by suicide every day. The number of suicide attempts is 10 times higher, meaning that approximately 30 people in Flanders attempt suicide daily. Suicide never has a single cause. A complex interplay of biological, psychological, social, and psychiatric factors forms the basis.

Fire prevention is and remains an important part of the overall prevention policy of a company. Just think of the fires that regularly make the news…