Promote health and wellness

There is no question this is the most personal ergonomics principle. Quite honestly who's business is your personal health and wellness? Emphatically it is your's.

The last principle directly addresses our need to maintain the most important tool we have  . . . our minds and our bodies; in other words our physical and mental health.  The goal is to provide a workplace where regular health and wellness concepts and practices are built into the course of doing business.

Health and wellness factors include:

• Nutrition

• Smoking cessation

• Cholesterol levels

• Blood pressure

•  Blood sugar levels/Diabetes

• Body weight control

• Physical fitness

• Emotional stress control

• Social networks

For example: movement (stretching) helps to control fatigue by relieving awkward and sustained positions and promoting circulation to the body's tissues.

(Who has dogs or cats at home? When they get up from a little nap what is the first thing they do? We have an instinctive need to move . . . we just need to pay attention to it.

Give the 30/30/30 Rule a try. Every 30 minutes or so do30 seconds of something else physically - if you have been sitting, stand up to use the phone, take a walk, do a stretch.

And the last 30 of the 30/30/30 Rule - try it for 30 days to make it a habit!