The factsheet provided by the German Social Accident Insurance for Commercial Transport, Postal Logistics and Telecommunication (BG Verkehr) informs about experiences with Deskbikes. Using a deskbike allows you to work dynamically. It's easy to switch between sitting, standing and cycling. By keeping moving, you reduce the risks to your health, and, in addition, you can concentrate better, perform better and you feel less tired. Deskbikes are the office version of an exercise bike. 

Cycle while you work is the motto at Deutsche Telekom when it comes to improving employee health. Since mid-November, the company has provided employees at its new Group campus in Hamburg and at its Service Headquarters in Bonn with a total of 220 Deskbikes. These innovative replacements for the conventional office chair are reminiscent of exercise bikes and enable employees to pedal their way to fitness while working at their desks. The workers not only had fun pedaling, but the deskbikes heightened their mental activity.

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Exposure to vibrations may affect human beings in a variety of ways.The harmful effects of vibrating tools or machines have long since been known but are still frequently underestimated. This Guide for Risk Assessment is about hazards arising from whole-body and hand-arm vibrations. It is meant to support small and medium enterprises to perfom risk assessment and to implement the European Vibration Directive 2002/44/EC

 

This video from the Austrian Social Accident Insurance AUVA shows exercises to compensate one-sided movements during work. The exercises are easy to follow and can be done at work or at home without any training tool.

Back pain is a very common problem and will affect many of us at some point during our lives. Although back pain is a common health problem, there is a lack of awareness for back health. This series of posters is intended to raise awareness that prevention of backpain and musculoskeletal diseases are important issues.

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