What is our most important tool? Our mind and body!
There is no question this is the most personal ergonomics principle. Quite honestly who's business is your personal health and wellness? Emphatically it is yours.
The last principle directly addresses our need to maintain the most important tool we have . . . our minds and our bodies; in other words our physical and mental health. The goal is to provide a workplace where regular health and wellness concepts and practices are built into the course of doing business.
Health and wellness factors include:
Nutrition
Smoking cessation
Cholesterol levels
Blood pressure
Blood sugar levels/Diabetes
Body weight control
Physical fitness
Emotional stress control
Social networks
For example: movement (stretching) helps to control fatigue by relieving awkward and sustained positions and promoting circulation to the body's tissues.
Give the 30/30/30 Rule a try. Every 30 minutes or so do30 seconds of something else physically - if you have been sitting, stand up to use the phone, take a walk, do a stretch.
And the last 30 of the 30/30/30 Rule - try it for 30 days to make it a habit!
(Who has dogs or cats at home? When they get up from a little nap what is the first thing they do? We have an instinctive need to move . . . we just need to pay attention to it.
Your health and wellness is your personal business - take advantage of the opportunities available at your place of work and other resources.
For example: movement (stretching) helps to control fatigue by relieving awkward and sustained positions and promoting circulation to the body's tissues.