Healthy Work Environment Survey 1 Results

Well, I made my counting and so far this is how it looks like, 

I wonder what will be the community reaction:

Healthy Working Environment Survey

Results Week 1

Part A – About Smoking in Our Workplace

1. Please rate the degree to which you agree with the following statement:

“I believe that second-hand smoke is a serious threat to my health in my workplace.”

61 %  # Strongly agree

23%     # Agree

8%       # Neither agree nor disagree

8%       # Strongly disagree

2. Are you bothered by other people smoking in our workplace?

67%    # Yes (continue to Question 3)

33%     # No (go to Question 4)

3. How does second-hand/passive smoke affect you?

22%     # I have physical reactions (headaches, stinging eyes, nausea, etc)

22%     # I have medical/health complications affected by second-hand smoke (heart

disease, respiratory disease, allergies, etc)

45%     # I feel the need to get away from my work area for a breath of fresh air.

11%     # I have difficulty sleeping at night due to smoke-related

34%     # I have difficulty concentrating on my work because I am annoyed by the presence

of second-hand smoke

33%     # I feel that my productivity at work is negatively affected by the presence of

second-hand smoke

25%     # I feel uncomfortable asking people who smoke not to smoke around me.

8%       # I sense tensions between smokers and non-smokers

Part B – About a Smoke-Free Policy for Our Radio

6. Are you in favour of reducing exposure to second-hand/passive smoke in our workplace?

73%    # Yes

27%     # No

7. Which smoking policy you would support? (Please tick ONE only)

42%    # Complete ban on smoking in our workplace

25%     # No smoking inside and smoking in restricted areas outside.

33%     # Smoking restricted to certain areas outside and designated areas inside that are

separately vented to the outside

Part C – About Me

9. I am

38%     # male

62%     # female

10. average  30 years old

11. Which of the following describes me best? (Please tick ONE only)

46%    # I am a non-smoker. (go to Question 17)

15%     # I am an ex-smoker. (go to Question 17)

23%     # I am a smoker who would like to quit. (go to Question 12)

16%     # I am a smoker who does not want to quit. (go to Question 12)

Part D – About Supporting People who Smoke

12. Would you like to cut down on the amount you smoke?

83%    # Yes

17%     # No

13. How many times in the past year have you quit smoking for at least 24 hours?

50%     # None

33%     # 1 to 5

17%     # 5 or more

15. Please describe the types of support you have used:

E Cigarette

16. If our radio were to become smoke-free indoors and outdoors, how likely

would you seriously consider quitting smoking?

33%     # Definitely

17%     # Very likely

17%     # Somewhat likely

33%     # Not at all

Part E

17.       Average time spend in radio  

each person      -           16 hours a week

Non Smokers             -           20 hours a week

Smokers           -           8 hours a week

19. Would you like if our radio would become a smoke – free radio?

67%    # Yes.

33%     # No.

Note: Smoke Free Radio is important for the people who does not smoke, and do not want to inhale second hand/passive smoke.

If you did not fill out our survey, There is still time for this.
Make our research more accurate! Please fill out survey until the end of this week

(until Sunday the 4^th)

 

Healthy Work Environment Campaign Update

Hello Again. I decided to write about.

So.. after the first week of collecting surveys, I have collected some surveys. The results of the first week, will be known tonight.

I just wanted to add about the attitude. at first 2 or 3 days I have noticed that amount of cigarretes smoked in th eoffice was reduced. this week - on monday it is already like it used to be.
I am not surprised, because I had no expectations, but i feel rather disappointed in the radio community, that choose in a small amount of people, not to make the survey ( i can't be here 24h per day, and keep asking everybody), and dissapointed of keep awaring them that it is hurtful to my health and others in the radio. Well, we are going to se results of the survey how much peole do not like it.

I started also think about the problem of smoking in Greece.
It is not about smoking. It is about the respect to each other. It is like - if smokers does not respect their bodies and health, why they do still disrespect mine? Why do I have to suffer for their problems? Why people free of this disgusting bad habit, need to suffer, and expose to their smoke in a work place? I understand I, and nobody can not tell people what to do.. on the street. but i Strongly agree with baning smoking in a closed place. Is it such a big problem to understand, that is the way the world goes this days?

People around the world are quiting smoking, and the amount of smokers each year is falling down.
why is this happening?

Because it is true that it is causing a lot of damage to human health.

stay tuned for the results of the survey. and for the short history of smoking in the world :)

Thanks Byt

Healthy Work Environment Campaign

Today I have started my Healthy Work Environment Campaign.

I will try to make our radio a smoke Free radio!

I start with a little survey that I will give to all of the people that come to the radio during the week.

They will answer many different questions about the smoking. My mentor said, that democratically, if most of participants will be for making Radio a smoke free.. that will happen. Thumbs up for good Attitude!

Of course Greeks are the only nation in the Europe that does not respect the laws and any restrictions against smoking. I want to see if this can cause any reasons for existing of the basics of the Greek "Crisis" problem.

Day 1. Collecting Surveys.

Where to begin?

Hello after almost 2 months. :)

OK. so I have not been writing for such a god damn long time, I even don't know were to start any more. Should I start with my first visit in Italy in Pizzo, on a youth exchange with Youth in dance? 8 days with 6 international teams, dancing their regional and traditional, national dances? Loosing our baggage by Air Italia... Twice for some of people of my team, the SKY team, that was born in this way?

 or should I start with one day visit in Rome, walking around in the city centre, visiting the most what we could see with SKY team in 8 hours in Rome? like colloseum and freaking st. peters square? We also got there buy bus that wanted us to pay double the price for tkaing us there and back from the airport?

or Should I begin with how I have spent my annual leave from Serres? That I went back to Poland for 2 weddings? that in the time between My great 2 Male friends lost their minds for fantastic women, I went to visit on Sicily my favourite Italians from the youth exchange that came to serres at the very beggining of my project in Greece? like they took me for swimming every day, which I loved pratty much , and I even got myslef some fins and snorkels to dive better, and longer and wider?
or should I begin with the story how I have found my fantastic diving mask?

I don't know, might be I should begin with how I visited FlatOne Aleksandra or Hedvig Karpati from the Athens volunteer's On arrival Seminar? so Basically about visiting Warsaw and Budapest?

Or should I write about that, that when I finally got back to Serres to continue my program, my dear Grandmother pass away, and I went back to Poland again.. just for 4 days, to support my family on her funeral?

or should I begin with actually great camping on the beach near to Kavala? that we been on.. I do not really remember even when?

or should I perhaps just skip all that, and try to say what I actually try to do over here right now?

I am pretty much messed. It is like...2 months no writing - and I am basically lost in the experience that I maintain to gain over all this time.

this is of course just a lack of things that i tried, and did during all this time, and actually.. next week i am going already again to the MID term seminar to Athens.

This is amazing how time flies If I will be able to write again soon.. might be it will have much more sense :)

Just a little bit of Athens by night and by day..

 

So.. Hello after my little ol' brake. :)

I have been in Athens, on arrival training for my voluntary thing. Unfortunately.. we stayed in hotel, which I do not know that for sure.. but one of the biggest hotels I have ever seen.. like 10 levels, restaurant with a view on top.. but.. the Internet was still paid. 49 Euro a week is a little bit too much? aint it?.. so.. i had weak Internet connection and did not wrote anything. sorry.. the second reason why it happened was a lack of time that I had. Training was not that tense, but in the end.. when you are in Athens for the first time.. you do not want to sit behind a computer. You want to go out and see all this mythological places that you were learning about when you were a child. and you were a child one day? might be.. you still are. I know I met in there a few people that would say it too me without even a blink in their eye. :) ;)

Anyways. although all of the tasks, and pretty busy schedule of the training, our fantastic group of volunteers managed to pop out a bit of there, and in the evenings we were discovering the Ancient city of Athens. ( well at least whats left from it)
the ruins are.. liek ruins.. looks old enough, and the fence around all of the ancient structures says - this is important! do not touch it!

First thing that I have noticed on the streets, is that actually tourists.. although there are a lot of them in the city.. you barely can see them on the streets. if you go to the Acropolis you will find them for sure, but in the pubs or in the shops they blend with other normal Greek people. you would think that it is impossible because Greeks are tanned, and have this brown skin.. but.. no. not all of them, in fact there are a lot of light tanned people of Greece as well.

So at the beginning of the training we had a lot of lessons and practice exercises. I put all the pictures I had in to this gif - for all of you to check how did it looked like. We were inform about our organizations and all of the so called DO's and DON'Ts.

but after full and active day we wanted to visit Athens so At the first night we went out, walked around.. just like wondered around the streets. nothing particular except at the end everybody was tired so we stayed at Exarchia Square. On this Square local people of the City of Athens are relaxing, talking and meeting each others. Having some conversations or.. watching a silent movie. At the night we arrived there there was this silent movie switched on. People gathered together and than.. they had enjoy it together. Everyone brought its own chair! Can you imagine? there was like 40 persons with their chairs :D very cool. other people around over there where the youth of Athens, sitting on the wall smoking a blunt or having a beer. Mostly black dressed people with piercings all around. Also some other nations people. They say in Athena lives 35% of all People in Greece, and 30% of them are migrants. So we weere walking around and meeting each others like this:

 

This is Ana. Ana is from Lisbon the city of Portugal. Ana, as the Volunteer, visits Greece and takes care about Greek children, is educated in Geologic Science. Hates taking pictures and learning photography :) I hope I remembered everything correctly :)

This is a group picture. It was pretty hard to get everyone together in front of the Parliament in Athens, but Kursat helped me a lot. Kursat is a soon going to be a Master Diver which will allow him to became a training instructor and will be able to help and teach people how to dive safely. He asked my about taking a picture for him.. and while I was taking it all of the other persons of the group started posing in the back. Finally Kursat decided to join them. It was very funny.
Anyways the parliament building is guarded by 2 volunteer soldiers that are very strictly standing there and guarding it. They need to be tall from 1.85 meter to 2,30 I suppose, and during they one hour shift They can't move a muscle! it is pretty common in that kind of places. The only thing that they can move in this hour is their toes of the feet, which basically stimulates their blood circulation - poor dudes. volunteer dudes :)

We have been also at the Likavitas which basically should be the highest spot of the city, where from, the Athens panorama, during the night is the most beautiful thing I have seen in Greece so far. It is not so far from the center. It is a mountain with forests around it and with a small church and also a restaurant at the top of it. The view is not only fantastic but also impressive! Unfortunately my batteries of camera where down, so this is the best picture.. group picture that is from Likavitos. (above) and than.. there is a statue of Perykles the prominent and influential Greek statesman.

On the left side we see a fantastic Picture of Kubre and Marilisse which basically are searching for the greatest route for that evening. They organizational skills allowed me to see this fantastic souvenir shop ;) with sculputres of politicians and ancient mythological gods... and also plenty plenty more :)

This was a fantastic sun set seen from the balcony of our meeting room in the hotel :)

Apparently this is how Athenian balcony looks like and lower is just a door with a lamp.

Basically this pictures presents Giacomo the master of photography that gave me tips how to make good pictures.. and hopefully he will continue to do it. That picture is not sharp, but I liked it anyway. He told me about the aperture, and now for another month I will probably experiment with it.. and than.. who knows what idea he will have for me. On the right side is another window of the souvenir shop.

And on the left side above we have a pretty interesting photography of ancient Agora with enchanted enlightenment I suppose. Ancient Agora is a place where they have been holding Socrates, I think it was his prison type of thing.. although on the picture you cannot see a damn thing :) and than.. on the right side there is entrance to the famous Acropolis at the Athens.. which is the most important left over of the ancient times around and lower you can see some pictures of the Parthenon and me with Ola - the polish lover and student of architecture :)

Ola pretty much enjoyed the most the statues of this women statues behind me. ( picture on the left above) and on the right there is a view for the acropolis from the rock beneath it :D

 and above there are the pictures of The first Greek theater of the Dionisos who basically is the god of the grape harvest, wine making and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy. The story says, that if on the stage part the coin is dropped.. the sound of it should be heard even at the places that are the most far away from the stage. (Mrs. Teacher Story).

and now there is a bit more of the acropolis view for you:

Basically view from the rock beneath the acropolis was also beautiful and overall all the city gives you this amazing impression of the ancient times. on almost every corner you can find some left overs, some stones or columns or statues that reminds you of the historical meaning of this city.

This is one of the buildings of the Athenian Academy which basically was sooo closed.. :| (probably because of the summer time )

and this little green fella we have found on the way back, isn't it cool? :D yes it is :D cute car no 1.

Than when I had my last day at the Athens, and was supposed to wait very actively on my bus back to Serres at 22.00 we were just wondering around all this great Saturday. So with Alice the diver girl from UK we have seen acropolis one more time.. and a Temple of Zeus (left picture above with girl on it ;) The Temple of Zeus was the highest building in the ancient Athens and its columns where the tallest with their incredible above 100metres.. ( I think it was 122 or something like it) The right picture above shows us the mighty ol' servant of the goddess of the Beautiful and love Aphrodite - Pan himself. Pan was Aphrodite's  helper, and also god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, nature, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music, and (which is my favorite part of course)  the companion of the nymphs

This two statues was made a pictures because I was leaving Athens.. and they looked pretty cool. There was no time for getting knowledge about what who and where about them. Kind of stupid.. but The man on the horse shows the way.. at the other statue is kind of looking straight at .. where is he showing? I want to know. :D

 

On my personal request Alice went with me inside the Ferrari shop - I made a fast picture and we left. I never knew Ferrari shops existed before :D

Than we went back to the hotel and on the way we where just coming by this Parliament building.. and this little ship was a sculpture on the wall.

This dog was not sleeping, he was moving and he even looked at me when i did took this picture.. he never bothered about it :D

and than we went for the searching of the famous Exarchia squat place.. which was not easy to find, so we were just wondering around the neighborhood when I found this amazing graffiti of the Joker himself. and than, finally we made it to find the squat place. Maria, Bony, ( making themselves pictures) beautiful moment. perfect for the last quest in the Athens at this day.

I did liked the city very much ( especially Likavitos) , there was a very unique and fantastic atmosphere around, but it is not only the city what creates it.. it is mostly the people so...

Volunteers!!

thank you and hopefully see you again.. soon..

around the globe!

Thanks Bye!!

PS. it was pretty hard to say goodbye this time.. :| poker face ;)