WFH sickness

[Gromit]

I've actually been waiting for this article.

One point in my working life I was a Work Station Assessment (WSA) expert.

Many WSAs carried out today use a method I pioneered (I was both flattered and angry to see private firms had copied me) although it has evolved in my absence.

I was part of a huge organisation that didn't do enough WSA despite my warnings. The the HSE got involved. Then everyone got an assessment.

When half the country started to embrace WFH I thought... No way all these people will get WSAs and the equipment they need. It's going to end in work related upper limb disorders.

Yep it has. Will anything be done about it. I suspect not.

 

[Fez909]

Yep it has. Will anything be done about it. I suspect not.

It will. It'll be "back to the office, plebs. It's good for you"

 

[Gromit]

I wonder who copied who in this instance.
Both worth looking at if you work from home.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/ck1.pdf

https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/healthsafetyenvironment/documentmanagementsystem/forms/F009-VDU-Workstation-Checklist.pdf

 

[Gromit]

It will. It'll be "back to the office, plebs. It's good for you"

It's possible to buy training software to help people self assess.
But you're right. This will be used as a stick to beat people back into Tory owned commercial properties.

 

[Chz]

What utter and absolute bollocks. The vast majority end up working through at home what they'd take the day off for at the office. Particularly now that it's considerably more antisocial than it was before to come in and spread your germs around.

 

[B.I.G]

What utter and absolute bollocks. The vast majority end up working through at home what they'd take the day off for at the office. Particularly now that it's considerably more antisocial than it was before to come in and spread your germs around.

Did you read the OP?

 

[Chz]

Did you read the OP?

Yes.
Edit to add: It's not a "Sick Note Crisis". The OP isn't bollocks, but the article is.

 

[B.I.G]

Yes.
Edit to add: It's not a "Sick Note Crisis". The OP isn't bollocks, but the article is.

Ok. Because your response doesn’t seem to be related unless you can catch muscular pain from someone else.

 

[Chz]

Ok. Because your response doesn’t seem to be related unless you can catch muscular pain from someone else.

It's related to time off from work in general. I think the employers are benefitting more from people doing work at home when they'd have otherwise been sick than they're losing out with people signing off with bad posture. Especially because, as the OP notes, it's the employer's bloody responsibility to make sure they're set up at home properly if they do work there.

 

[contadino]

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I've actually been waiting for this article.

One point in my working life I was a Work Station Assessment (WSA) expert.

Many WSAs carried out today use a method I pioneered (I was both flattered and angry to see private firms had copied me) although it has evolved in my absence.

I was part of a huge organisation that didn't do enough WSA despite my warnings. The the HSE got involved. Then everyone got an assessment.

When half the country started to embrace WFH I thought... No way all these people will get WSAs and the equipment they need. It's going to end in work related upper limb disorders.

Yep it has. Will anything be done about it. I suspect not.

As much to do with worker wellbeing as Rees-Mogg slapping snide post-its on civil servants' desks. Not sitting in a traffic jam twice a day is the latest villain in right wing doctrine.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Especially because, as the OP notes, it's the employer's bloody responsibility to make sure they're set up at home properly if they do work there.

Yes - current job is first where I've wfh'd as an official thing, rather than an emergency arrangement, and i had to fill in a questionnaire to confirm it's all set up properly.

Not sure who would be liable if i'd told lies and was working from sofa with laptop, though...

 

[newme]

Yes - current job is first where I've wfh'd as an official thing, rather than an emergency arrangement, and i had to fill in a questionnaire to confirm it's all set up properly.

Not sure who would be liable if i'd told lies and was working from sofa with laptop, though...

Your sofa!

 

[Agent Sparrow]

I’ve just been referred to OH for a neck/upper back issue that was either caused or exacerbated by home working