Regularly check your work station

You may have had a specialist check whether your work setup was ergonomic at some point soon after starting with your current company. But, many factors can change over time. You may gain or lose weight, wear different types of clothing or shoes, have a change in vision acuity, develop a health condition, or find your health improved. Even just the aging of your chair and other equipment can affect your posture and how you use your work station. Because of these factors, it’s important that you schedule a regular checkup for how ergonomic your workstation is. A few things to check include:

• How do you feel now that you’ve been using the space for a few months? Do you have any nagging pain or chronic muscle tightness? This could be a sign that something about your setup needs adjustment.
• How do your eyes feel at the end of the day? Most people who work daily with computers or other screens feel some eye fatigue and dryness, but constant painful eye fatigue could signal that you need to adjust the distance of your monitor from your chair or that you need to change the light or font size settings.
• Are your feet or hands going numb? These are serious signs that your workstation needs adjustment. You should have good blood flow when sitting at your computer, and a numb hand could be a sign that you are already suffering a repetitive stress injury.

Consider factors other than posture

It is true that posture is an important aspect of ergonomics, and you should certainly pay attention to how your body is positioned while you work. However, other factors are also at play, and one of those is the frequency at which you perform certain tasks. Setting up a perfectly ergonomic workstation still does not entirely dissolve the risks associated for sitting in one place for long periods of time. It is easy to cut down those risks by simply remembering to get up and stretch every hour. You don’t have to take a long break or even leave your desk, but those little breaks get your muscles moving in different ways, reducing your chance of injury. Here are a few tips on frequency breaks:

• Schedule a few tasks each day that you can perform while standing up rather than sitting. Even if you don’t have a standing workstation, you probably have some items on your list that don’t require sitting at your monitor. Perhaps you could stand while making a phone call? Or stand to read a hard copy document?
• Stretch every part of your body when you get up. You may think that typing only stresses your wrists, but the truth is that every part of your body needs to be shook out.
• Occasionally take a longer break to take a brief walk and get away from your workstation completely. It could just be walking to the coffee pot for a refill, or it could be stepping outdoors for a short workout, whatever you can fit in.

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