Browsing: White-collar work | Page 21

A large employer has used a major office fitout as an opportunity to provide sit-to-stand desks and other ergonomic tools to help its desk-bound workers sit correctly.

The costs of accurately measuring a work building's indoor environmental quality and improving thermal comfort are "very modest" compared to returns in employee wellbeing and productivity, according to one of the world's leading researchers in the field.

Providing staff with peer support and mentoring increases engagement and improves safety, a mental health organisation has claimed on the back of a report raising concerns about declining support networks.

An ergonomist has urged employers to increase their focus on workstation comfort and look beyond Australian Standards when purchasing furniture.

An app-based health and wellbeing program has helped a major retailer's employees "join the dots" between their daily habits and their health, and reduced absences.

Employers can improve safety through the "moral choice" of reducing job demands and increasing resources, while workers must take responsibility for their own work-life balance, according to recommendations from a recent worrying survey of principals.

• Move your monitor to reduce strain injuries;
  
• New safety rules for quads and other vehicles commence in Qld;
  
• Alerts issued after trainee crash and gas incidents; and
  
• Did you miss our latest quarterly update?

Switching to standing desks reduces musculoskeletal stress, but workers must increase their standing time gradually to avoid the risk of injury, an occupational physiotherapist warns.

A New Zealand government department has been convicted of workplace health and safety breaches relating to the September 2014 shooting murders of two staff members.

White-collar workers who type vigorously suffer from more back and neck pain than their colleagues, a study has found.