Summary | Ergonomics at the workplace

Summary

Even with a desk workplace, consequential damage caused by years of sitting can be prevented or minimized by creating an ergonomic workplace and active countermeasures. Already in the vocational training more importance would have to be attached in the sense of the Vorbeugung to the switching of back-friendly work behavior, compensation sport and the mechanism of ergonomic jobs. Larger companies already employ specialists in the field of occupational medicine and offer corresponding training courses. Through these measures, many “desk offenders” could certainly be spared pain and a lot of money could be saved in the health care system by avoiding back-related absences due to illness.