Tips
for Breaks and How Breaks Reduce Employee
Injury
As anyone who’s
worked an eight-hour day knows, breaks are
an anticipated and important part of your
day. For this reason, it’s important
to use them wisely and to encourage your employees
to do the same. If you do so, you can even
reduce employee
injuries, muscle aches, and headaches.
To appreciate the importance
of breaks, it is necessary to first understand
how your body works over a long day. Even
while sitting at a desk, your muscles are
at work holding your body steady. It may not
seem like much, but over the hours that adds
up, and your muscles can get tired and tense,
which can in turn cause other issues like
headaches. Further, in this day of computers
and technology, many people find that their
eyes are strained from staring at a screen
for so long.
To reduce the frequency,
duration, and intensity of muscle aches and
the like, stretching can be a very valuable
tool. Encourage your employees to use their
breaks to stretch and move around by putting
up posters of stretches like shoulder rolls.
Your PEO often has posters and other literature
to help your employees stay healthy and happy.
Breaks can reduce
employee injury by providing not only a mental
break, which then allows employees to concentrate
better, but also a physical break. If your
employees keep themselves healthy by stretching
and such on their breaks, they will have fewer
problems with muscle injury, which in turn
means less time lost at work and money at
the doctor’s office. A PEO can help
you integrate breaks and stretching into your
company’s routine.
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