If this is your year for achieving great things and boosting your productivity, make 2017 the year where workplace health is a priority in your business, and in your working life. Workplace health, commonly associated with good ergonomics, can enhance creativity and morale, both critical factors for success and improved productivity in the modern day office environment.Â
It’s official: Low back pain is the world’s biggest work disability, ranking higher than any other condition including infections, depression and cardiac disease.
The research, conducted across 187 countries over a 20-year period, also found that low back pain accounted for a third of all work-related disability worldwide.
Lead author, Professor Tim Driscoll, Sydney School of Public Healt…
At some point in our lives, back pain is likely to affect each of us. In Australia, the cost of lost productivity and treatments costs a massive $34 billion according to a 2007 study by Access Economics.
So why is back pain occurring at epidemic levels? Is it because we work too much, do injuries happen through exercise, or are we just not standing straight and tall? In truth, work, exercis…
Albert Einstein did some of his best thinking walking around campus. The Queen of England discusses national matters with Prime Ministers as they take a turn about the gardens at Buckingham Palace. Malcolm Turnbull has a standing desk in his Parliamentary office. If the genius and powerful have ditched sitting all day, there must be an excellent reason why we should all follow suit.
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