As much as we have control over health and safety in our home environments, we should try to maintain that same sort of applicability in work environments as well. If you’re in a position as an owner or manager, you have specific attributes that you can work to maintain. However, if you’re an employee or a customer at a place of business, there are things that you can do as well.

Keeping healthy and safe means different things in different places. There is physical safety in construction zones. There is researching what common workplace injuries are so that you can avoid them. In office environments, there are ergonomic options that help with health and safety. Also, tangentially, if you think about snacks or other food that are available in workplaces, that contributes to health as well.

Construction Zones

In a classic example of physical safety, you have to wear safety equipment around construction zones. Have you ever noticed that everyone at a construction site has a hard hat on, and should be wearing work boots? That’s because, in construction sites, things fall all the time. Nails, screws, bolts, pieces of construction material – all of those things are potential hazards, which is why the safety equipment is required in the first place.

Typical Workplace Injuries

Sometimes to know how to stay healthy and safe at work, you have to understand what common workplace injuries are in the first place. If you’re not aware that carpenters hit their fingers with hammers or that dental assistants suffer from sore backs, then you might not know what to do to prohibit those issues from happening. There are plenty of places that you can research workplace injuries, and then you can adapt your behaviors from there.

Ergonomic Options

In office environments, there are all sorts of very subtle workplace injuries that can become more severe over time. Back pain, wrist pain, leg pain – all of these can happen because of bad ergonomics. As a manager, you can provide employees with ergonomic chairs, and that will resolve a whole host of issues. Getting them standing desks can also help with some of the mobility issues that happen in the long-term.

Snacks and Nutrition

As much as you want to avoid injuries from falling objects or bad chairs or dangerous equipment, keeping yourself healthy is also about putting the right fuel in your body as well. The workplace that sells candy bars and snack machines and energy drinks is going to end up being a less healthy place than somewhere that they sell fresh fruit and sandwiches. Especially if you’re in charge of this as workplace manager, try and make nutritionally dense options available to your employees, and their good health will improve.