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20% of employees globally were engaged at work in 2025; 64% are not engaged and 16% are actively disengaged.

The estimated cost of low employee engagement to the world economy in lost productivity, equal to 9% of global GDP.

of the variance in team engagement is accounted for by the manager.

Only 12% of employees strongly agree their organization does a great job of onboarding new employees.

Only one in three workers strongly agree they received recognition or praise for good work in the past seven days; those who don't are twice as likely to say they'll quit within a year.

lower absenteeism in top-quartile engaged teams compared with bottom-quartile teams, along with 23% greater profitability.

people experience significant disability, 16% of the world's population, or 1 in 6 people.

of food were wasted worldwide in 2022, 19% of the food available to consumers.

of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food loss and waste, almost five times the emissions of the aviation sector.

Global surface warming in 2011–2020 above 1850–1900, unequivocally caused by human activities.

The cut in global greenhouse gas emissions needed by 2030 to limit warming to around 1.5°C.

Only 6.9% of materials used by the global economy come from recycled sources.

of revenue is lost each year by organizations to occupational fraud, according to Certified Fraud Examiners; 43% of frauds are detected by a tip.

of people aged 16-74 in the EU had at least basic digital skills in 2025, 20 points below the 2030 target.

higher procedural knowledge for trainees taught with simulation games versus a comparison group (+11% declarative knowledge, +9% retention), in a meta-analysis of 65 studies.

Around 1 in every 10 patients is harmed in health care and more than 3 million deaths occur annually due to unsafe care.

Above 50% of harm (1 in every 20 patients) is preventable; half of this harm is attributed to medications.

Out of every 100 patients in acute-care hospitals, seven patients in high-income countries and 15 patients in low- and middle-income countries will acquire at least one health care-associated infection during their hospital stay.

Where good hand hygiene and other cost-effective practices are followed, 70% of those infections can be prevented.

Mortality in Vienna's first obstetric clinic in April 1847, before Semmelweis introduced chlorine hand washing; it fell to 2.2% in June and 1.2% in July.

Globally, an estimated 12 billion working days are lost every year to depression and anxiety at a cost of US$ 1 trillion per year in lost productivity.

An estimated 15% of working-age adults were living with a mental disorder in 2019.

In 2025, 29% of respondents reported that they experienced 'Stress, depression or anxiety' during the last 12 months, that were caused or made worse by their work.

Forty percent of employees globally experienced stress a lot of the previous day.

Between 35 and 54 percent of U.S. nurses and physicians have substantial symptoms of burnout.

The world faces a projected shortfall of 11.1 million health workers by 2030, mostly in low- and lower-middle income countries.

In 2019 around 2.93 million workers died from work-related factors.

Over 395 million workers worldwide sustained a non-fatal occupational injury.

Long working hours (≥ 55 hours per week) was responsible for 745,000 deaths globally in 2016.

Around three in every five workers suffer from MSDs.

Musculoskeletal disorders account for nearly 90% of recognised occupational diseases in France.

Daily allowances paid for work-accident and occupational-disease sick leave reached €4.9 billion, becoming the branch's largest expense for the first time.

Low back pain accounts for 20% of work accidents and 7% of occupational diseases; nearly half occur while carrying loads.

If performed immediately, CPR can double or triple the chance of survival from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Only about 40% of people who experience an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest get the immediate help that they need before professional help arrives.

At least 44,000 Americans die each year as a result of medical errors […] the number may be as high as 98,000.

A review of reports from the Joint Commission reveals that communication failures were implicated at the root of over 70 percent of sentinel events.

Nearly one third (31%) of adults worldwide, approximately 1.8 billion people, did not meet the recommended levels of physical activity in 2022.

In 2024, 30.5% of adults slept less than 7 hours on average in a 24-hour period.

An estimated 1.7 million deaths each year were associated with consuming too much sodium in 2023.

Organizations lose an estimated 5% of revenue to fraud each year.

Tips were the most common detection method, accounting for 43% of cases; more than half of tips came from employees.

The human element was involved in 62% of breaches.

The global average cost of a data breach reached a record USD 4.99 million, up 12% over last year.

Electric car sales grew by 20% globally to exceed 20 million in 2025, meaning one-quarter of all new cars sold were electric.

Unsafe food causes around 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths annually.

As of the end of December 2025, there are 26,116 International Standards and standards-type documents.

Accidents at work claimed 3 298 lives in the EU in 2023; there were 2.83 million non-fatal accidents.

Manufacturing accounted for 18.5% of non-fatal accidents at work in the EU in 2023.

In 2025, 20.0% of EU enterprises with 10 or more employees used artificial intelligence technologies.

In 2025, 10.9% of employed persons in France worked at least once at night over a four-week period.

Eight in ten EU citizens (79%, up 6 percentage points) agree there are regulations in place to make sure that the food they eat is safe.

Team psychological safety [is] a shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk taking.

Teaming is a verb. It is a dynamic activity, not a bounded, static entity.

In a team with high psychological safety, teammates feel safe to take risks around their team members.

As conflict—difference—is here in the world, as we cannot avoid it, we should, I think, use it.

A pattern of shared basic assumptions that was learned by a group as it solved its problems of external adaptation and internal integration.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. [...] It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is helping to build the world.

The greatness of a profession is perhaps, above all, to unite people: there is only one true luxury, and that is human relationships.

Speech belongs half to the one who speaks, half to the one who listens.

Rootedness is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Corporate social responsibility is the responsibility of enterprises for their impacts on society.

As we embark on this great collective journey, we pledge that no one will be left behind.

As a source of exchange, innovation and creativity, cultural diversity is as necessary for humankind as biodiversity is for nature.

Persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others.

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a Hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least to do no harm.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

The secret of the care of the patient is in caring for the patient.

The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe—how to observe.

The problem is not bad people in health care—it is that good people are working in bad systems that need to be made safer.

Though we cannot change the human condition, we can change the conditions under which humans work.

It represents an erosion in values, dignity, spirit, and will—an erosion of the human soul.

Burn-out is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed.

Any amount of physical activity is better than none, and more is better.

A safe and healthy working environment is a fundamental principle and right at work.

A member of staff shall receive the first-aid training needed to give first aid in an emergency in each workshop where dangerous work is carried out.

The main objective of this standardisation is to prevent adverse events that may result from misunderstandings in communication between professionals.

A bad system will beat a good person every time.

Inspection is too late. The quality, good or bad, is already in the product.

Cease dependence on inspection to achieve quality. Eliminate the need for inspection on a mass basis by building quality into the product in the first place.

Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it is free.

When applied to the workplace KAIZEN means continuing improvement involving everyone – managers and workers alike.

Lean thinking is lean because it provides a way to do more and more with less and less—less human effort, less equipment, less time, and less space—while coming closer and closer to providing customers with exactly what they want.

Five related terms, beginning with an S sound, describing workplace practices conducive to visual control and lean production.

Jidoka is based on the concept of stopping immediately when abnormalities are detected to prevent defective products from being produced.

The primary focus of quality management is to meet customer requirements and to strive to exceed customer expectations.

Consistent and predictable results are achieved more effectively and efficiently when activities are understood and managed as interrelated processes that function as a coherent system.

Successful organizations have an ongoing focus on improvement.

Operational risk is defined as the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events.

Compliance starts at the top. It will be most effective in a corporate culture that emphasises standards of honesty and integrity and in which the board of directors and senior management lead by example.

We can afford to lose money – even a lot of money. But we can't afford to lose reputation – even a shred of reputation.

The revolutionary idea that defines the boundary between modern times and the past is the mastery of risk: the notion that the future is more than a whim of the gods and that men and women are not passive before nature.

Those who promote and regulate health and safety need to understand how people think about and respond to risk.

The interaction between the firm and the consumer is becoming the locus of value creation and value extraction.

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

The traceability of food, feed, food-producing animals, and any other substance intended to be, or expected to be, incorporated into a food or feed shall be established at all stages of production, processing and distribution.

A system which identifies, evaluates, and controls hazards which are significant for food safety.

Night shift work is probably carcinogenic to humans (Group 2A).

Recalls due to undeclared food allergens are a leading cause of all food product recalls.