A Creative Concept to empower office workers addressing work-related health risks

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ID22945283
AuthorsÁgnes Borsos (0000-0001-9155-2203, Department of Interior, Applied and Creative Design, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Pécs , Boszorkány út 2., H-7624 Pécs , Hungary, corresponding author), Erzsébet Szeréna Zoltán (0000-0002-0118-8995, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Pécs , Boszorkány út 2., H-7624 Pécs , Hungary), Balázs Cakó (0000-0001-8594-4729, Department of Building Services and Building Engineering of Engineering and Information Technology University of Pécs , Boszorkány út 2., H-7624 Pécs , Hungary), Gabriella Medvegy (0000-0002-3419-9922, Department of Interior, Applied and Creative Design, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology University of Pécs , Boszorkány út 2., H-7624 Pécs , Hungary), János Girán (0000-0002-4309-0013, University of Pecs)
Year2022
Volume37
Issue3
Publication date2022-06-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHealth Promotion International (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0957-4824 • E-ISSN: 1460-2245
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/heapro/daac064
PMID35788311
OpenAlexW4283829642
LanguageEN
References cited47

Among office workers, the sedentary work-related health challenges are mainly associated with the fact that they often sit for up to 10 hr a working day. Members of the Research Group conducted a research program to assist the office workers of an international telecommunication company’s affiliate in Budapest to enhance comfort levels in the office work environment. The data collection included a Comfort Survey to reveal employees’ sense of comfort related to Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) components and the characteristics of employees’ feelings and behavior during working hours. Moreover, a measurement of IEQ components was carried out and focused on air quality, lighting, sound exposure and thermal comfort parameters. Based on the survey’s results, a Creative Concept was developed to empower office workers to address work-related health risks, notably sedentary work risks. The Creative Concept consists of five elements: a Comfort Map as an IEQ-related application to select a suitable workplace, redesigning concepts to increase the use of lounges, a newly developed work pad to improve personal hygiene in an office environment, recommendations for creating a health-enabling work environment and a workplace training program to raise health awareness. After validation, our Creative Concept can function as a multi-component workplace health promotion method to offer assistance for a wide variety of offices to create a health-enabling working environment.

Environmental health · Feeling · Health promotion · Occupational hygiene · Occupational safety and health · Office workers · Operations management · Promotion (chess) · Public health · Work (physics) · Work environment · Workplace health promotion · Air Quality and Health Impacts · Applied Psychology · Building Energy and Comfort Optimization · Engineering · Ergonomics and Musculoskeletal Disorders · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Social Psychology

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