How to ensure the safety of employees while working from home
Looking after workers physical health will ultimately support productivity and reduce absenteeism
Whether a one-man (or woman!) band or you’ve grown to a small team, you’ll know that every working minute counts. So you can ill afford being less than on top form or worse, losing working days.
Our physical health has never been tested so much as during the Covid pandemic! The clear links to mental health makes looking after yourself physical even more important. Key to our well-being during various layers of lock-down has been home and locally based exercise, but would you even consider how sitting at your computer is affecting your health at work?
We sit for an average 9 hour per day (NHS) of which on average 5 hours 41 minutes (Science Daily) are at our desks. Balance that against what the most dedicated of us would spend on exercise – 1-2 hours per day? – and you can see how important how we sit is to our physical well-being.
So what problems can arise from sitting too long? Recognisable symptoms such as: headaches, back and joint pain, breathing difficulties, enhanced anxiety or stress of everyday work and even organ dysfunction can all be attributed to poor posture. Relieving the cause of these symptoms will protect your workforce into the future.
Not knowing how to ensure the safety of employees can be concerning. If you struggle finding time to check up on your workers – maybe they are working remotely for example, so you don’t get to see them daily – and want to keep them safe but don’t know how, then you might like to know professional help is at hand.
How to keep your office-based workforce healthy and safe
Jenny Gebka, from Adaptive Pilates has first-hand experience of the ergonomic set-up of workstations and is passionate about preventing health issues. Her background is in posture recovery and rehabilitation exercise; she now teaches APPI modified Pilates after a career in corporate life.
Her knowledge will support your workers to be more productive, reduce the risk of days missed due to pain, injury or other debilitating illnesses.
This is done via a combination of:
- setting up their workstations correctly around them;
- discussing ways to keep physically healthy while working remotely;
- carrying out individual workstation checks with personal recommendations on how to maintain good posture;
- and exercises to keep them on top form throughout the day.
She works with you, your team or wider supply chain, whether at home or in a remote or normal office, to promote good health across all the people your business relies on.
To see what services are available please take a look at https://www.adaptivepilates.co.uk/employee-well-being.
