An uncluttered decor, soft colors and a well-ventilated rooms are external agents that promote a healthy work environment. Some companies do not give importance to this and are ignoring a fact that is easy to perform and not too much money.
To get the atmosphere we propose: The soft colors (pastels, white, etc.) are invited to work in a relaxed but active. Strong colors (red, deep blue, bottle green) tire visually generating psychological stress.
The places little airy, overloaded with dirty smoke and invite her to feel the same way psychologically. If possible, each worker enjoys having a little place of their own where to put some personal items, some plant or a decorative object to indicate individuality. All that we consider an extension of our being, we treat it with more affection.
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Health & Environment in Sustainable Development
Thursday, January 21st, 2010By 1996, the population of the Americas Region at 781 million, of this, the economically active population (EAP) was 351 million, or 44.9% of the total population, corresponding to 201 million (57.3%) to Latin America and the Caribbean, 150 million (42.7%) to the USA and Canada, forecast to reach 270 million in 2005 1,2. Developing countries face the dual pattern of work in transition economies, increasing between countries and within them, increasingly differentiated strata of workers, since employees of multinational companies to workers in the informal sector for survival, which accentuates social inequality and health
The Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLAC) estimates that the percentage of employed in the informal sector on total non farm employment increased in Latin America from 51.6% in 1990 to more than 56.7% in 1996 4. According to the International Labor Organization (ILO), the new jobs are being created are mostly low quality of every 100 new jobs, 85 are in the informal sector.
Technological development has significantly transformed the forms of production, creating the appearance of new and varied threats at work. A study by the World Health Organization (WHO), conducted by Leigh et al. 6 shows the importance of risk factors in terms of mortality and potential years of disability-adjusted life.
WHO, in its publication “Health and environment in sustainable development. Five years after the Earth Summit”, 7 draws attention to the exposure to risk factors in workplaces, including highlights the risks physical overload and risks, which affect 30% of the workforce in developed countries, and from 50 to 70% in developing countries, the biological (more than 200 agents), the physical (affecting 80 % of the workforce in developing countries) and chemicals (over 100 000 different substances in most economic activities, including teratogens and mutagens that particularly affect the maternal and reproductive health of workers ).
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Occupational Accidents Occur Per Minute
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010The effects of multiple factors on the health of workers are in an epidemiological profile characterized by the coexistence of typical diseases, occupational diseases (occupational hearing loss, acute poisoning by pesticides and heavy metals, skin diseases and respiratory diseases) and recently associated with work (cancer, occupational asthma, stress, cardiovascular disease and osteomyoarticular). There are also re-emerging diseases such as leptospirosis, dengue, malaria and tuberculosis. The ILO has estimated that in Latin America and the Caribbean 36 occupational accidents occur per minute and about 300 workers die every day as a result of these accidents. It also indicates that nearly 5 million occupational accidents that occur annually and of these, 90 000 are fatal 6.
In accordance with the principles of WHO and ILO, a healthy individual, disabled or chronically ill should be given the opportunity to participate actively in the workforce, without risk of danger to their health or ability to work. In the Report on World Health on the reduction of risks in particular, indicates that reducing them could result in all countries to a significant increase in healthy life expectancy of 10 years. It would make greater use of cost-effective interventions and strategies to reduce risk among entire populations 9. No doubt the welfare and health of workers contribute to economic progress and development of countries, remains an area where there are both social and economic interests and which is of essential community mobilization and workers in all sectors to achieve the foundations of health promotion, welfare and equity.
Phenomena not well planned industrialization, growth of working-age populations, the use of new foreign technologies not adapted to physiologic conditions include, elementary aspects that influence the current situation and create new problems in the occupational health. It is necessary therefore that we develop our strategy for healthy work environment is a set of Actions which are basically promotional, preventive and participatory, which recognizes the right of workers to perform their working activities in a healthy and appropriate and be informed about the risks of the work environment in relation to their health, welfare and survival, as well as take an active role in the elimination and (or) mitigation of adverse environmental factors that affect labor welfare and quality of life on the basis of the definitions of their responsibilities and duties in relation to the protection and recovery of the work environment and health, and has as main objective to obtain further improvements in health and safety indicators, framed within the Regional Plan Occupational Health.
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Healthy Work At Office
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Being constantly sit in a chair for a long period of time can cause contractures and severe pain in specific areas of the body. To counter this painful fact, there are different relaxation exercises.
While sitting up, placed in a position to bank on the floor, legs apart to shoulder height and make bends and breaks like a cat, accompanied by deep breathing and slow. Repeating this exercise 10 to 15 times.
Then reinserted in the same position and try to touch the ground with the opposite shoulder by shoulder with 3 rebounds accompanied with extension arm upward as if to touch the ceiling. Perform 10 to 20 times on each shoulder. In the same previous position extend opposite arm and leg while pointing the soles and the palms forward direction (Repeat 10 to 20 times).
And finally, settle your back, bend your legs toward your chest semi-open, taking knees with his hands, and 3 rebounds to perform chest pressing her hands to the body repeated 10 to 20 times.
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