This month we have featured the Go Home Healthy campaign by the HSE focusing on Work related stress.
In conjunction with this, we have devised a few ‘New Years’ resolutions for businesses: small steps that can improve health, safety and welfare at work and help take away some of those everyday stresses:
- Test the fire alarms every week
- Check emergency lighting once a month
- Check the first aid kit once a month (is everything in date?)
- Take a break from PC monitors and undertake a different task to give your eyes a rest every hour. Even if it’s doing the dreaded filing
- Eat lunch – away from your desk! Why not take a stroll and take in some fresh air?
- Have a glass or bottle of fresh water on your desk. Aim for atleast 2 litres per day
- Go and speak to the person sat opposite you or in the office next door, don’t e-mail them!
- De-clutter your work area; remove spare shoes from under your desk, don’t put things on the floor
- If you see something that is broken or needs fixing; report it, don’t just assume someone else will
Let’s see how long you can make these last!
Happy New Year
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