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Dame Carol
Black's review of
workplace health
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Prevention is always
better than cure!
Dame Carol Black's review of working age health shows that ill-health is
costing the UK economy a whopping £103 billion per year.
Whilst over half of this is spent on long-term incapacity benefits, over
£13billion is down to the direct costs of sickness absences, and the HSE
has previously suggested that the overall costs of sickness absence are
typically 2-3 times that figure, or up to £40billion
At a time when we seem to be heading for recession, can UK companies afford to
be losing this money?
Dame Carol's review highlights the need to make early interventions in
order to reduce these costs, and proposes a huge expansion of occupational
health services such as physiotherapy and stress counselling
Early interventions like this show massive returns on investment, but nowhere
near as great as taking cost-effective preventative action in the first place
At PostureMinder, our concern is for computer workers' health
Although computer jobs clearly aren't as dangerous as deep sea fishing or
working on an oil rig, it does carry risks. The sheer number of computer
workers means even low sickness absence rates will contribute hugely to the
figures found in Dame Carol Black's review
Not only that, for evey person who takes time off with a back, neck or shoulder
problem or RSI, headaches or eye fatigue, the HSE suggests there are up to 15
who suffer in silence
If you've ever suffered back pain through hunching over your keyboard, or
found yourself stressed and headachy from working too long without a break,
you'll be aware that the hidden costs of underperformance due to these
low-level health issues dwarf even the huge figures in Dame Carol's review.
The proven solution to minimise these problems is incredibly simple - sit in a
good posture at your computer, and take regular short breaks. Easy,
right?
If you look around your workplace how many people do you see following this
simple advice? If your office is like most, it'll be almost no-one!
That's why we invented our award-winning well-being and productivity
software - PostureMinder - to help computer users to help themselves. It gives
you a friendly nudge in the right direction whenever you sit badly or forget to
take a break, without trying to force the matter and raise your stress levels
in the process!
This is great for helping you get over an episode of back pain, and even better
for helping to prevent it in the first place
PostureMinder is an essential tool to help people feel better while they work,
and protect their health for the future
With computer-related musculoskeletal disorders on the increase as more people
use computers from an earlier age than ever, it's never been more important
for employers to take preventative action
To find out more about how PostureMinder can help computer users who already
suffer back pain and other health conditions, or can be used preventatively,
please click here
You can read Dame Carol's 115-page review
here
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