How ergonomic are your employees’ home workplaces?
DEKRA helps your staff to work ergonomically from home
The corona pandemic has caused many people to stay home to work. But now that we’re allowed to go back to the office, the majority of employers still allow working from home. This raises new issues for the companies concerned. Just how ergonomic are your employees’ home workplaces, for instance? DEKRA Industrial Safety’s Ergonomic Assessment gives you, the employer, a tool to answer such questions quickly and easily.
Seated on a dining-room chair with the laptop on the kitchen table, or perched at a desk on a chair that doesn’t match. For increasing numbers of people, working from home inflicts pain in their necks, shoulders, backs and wrists. And that sometimes leads to long-term work absences. Of course you want to prevent this as an employer. But investigating whether your employee’s home workplace is ergonomically sound takes lots of time and capacity. DEKRA Industrial Safety is happy to take these workplace investigations off your hands.
Questionnaire
DEKRA Industrial Safety’s Ergonomic Assessment is a workplace survey that you can arrange to have done anywhere in the world. Your employees send the basic information needed to experienced DEKRA consultants. They answer questions such as: “How many hours per day do you spend in online meetings?”, “Do you have any neck and shoulder problems?”, and “What previous ergonomic problems have you had?” The questionnaire can always be modified or drawn up by you as an employer.
The workplace assessment
Alongside completing the questionnaire, for a good workplace assessment employees are asked to submit two photographs of their homeworking situation – one an aerial view, the other a side or profile view of themselves seated at their workplace. These photos are essential for evaluating the home situation of your employee’s workplace.
The recommendation
The homeworking situation is then assessed through an online meeting with the employee. With the photos as a starting point, we provide recommendations on the desk layout, the screen height, the distance between the employee and the screen, and how best the employee can sit in his or her chair.
Report
A single click of a button sends you the advisory report through the DEKRA Safety Platform. The report offers insights into the home workplace’s risk factors, and advice on how to adapt it so that the employee can work in an ergonomically-responsible way. The report focuses on three areas of concern: the chair and desk, and the monitor, keyboard, mouse and webcam group. DEKRA Industrial Safety advice lets you ensure for yourself that your staff can also work in an ergonomically-responsible manner at home.
Want to learn more about the DEKRA Ergonomic Assessment? Then please get in touch with us through
office​.industrialsafety​.nl@​dekra​.com
or call +31(0)10 216 11 44.