Workplace and work process adaptation service to increase company efficiency and workers’ health

As employees, we spend a large part of our lives at work. Many jobs today are sedentary or involve repetitive movements. Problems associated with sedentary work or repetitive, monotonous movements result in reduced mobility, obesity, back, leg or arm problems and pain, which have a negative impact on employees’ health.

Presentation of the invention

Knowing the exact characteristics, preferences and workplace of employees is essential to effectively design health promotion and workplace and work process adaptation programmes to increase company performance and worker health. Researchers at the University of Primorska, Faculty of Health Sciences, have developed a professional, technology- and science-based service that provides for an initial analysis of employees, which is carried out using high-tech systems. Based on the results obtained and the preferences of the employees, they design individual and collective measures for the theoretical and practical empowerment of employees at work, in the light of taking care of their own health.

Advantages

• Using high-tech systems to analyse the health status of employees;
• Applying effective methods and up-to-date findings to design individually tailored occupational health measures;
• Increase the economy and productivity of employees and consequently improve the performance of the company/organisation as a whole.