e-Campus - Work Wellness Institute

Office based workers have become increasingly sedentary. This poses a challenge for organisations and public health alike due to the evidence linking sitting time with adverse health outcomes. Many full-time adult office workers in Australia, the UK, and the US sit for more than 80% of their total time at work. Several recent studies have demonstrated that prolonged sedentary behaviour (including sitting) is an independent risk factor for many negative health outcomes. The importance of breaking up prolonged periods of sitting in office based workers has become increasingly recognised as a priority workplace health issue.

The workplace has been recognised as an important setting to promote physical activity among adults and more recently a key setting to introduce strategies to reduce sitting time to improve health. Accordingly, recent evidence suggests that by introducing sit-to-stand workstations, periods of extended sitting can be reduced. These workstations have been reported to have a high level of acceptability and have been associated with improvement in employee's mood and muscular skeletal disorders. This has prompted a call for 'real world' research that focuses on implementation issues related to optimising both employers' and employees' uptake of this equipment. This webinar will present the findings of a Western Australian study that explored sitting and standing time in the workplace after the installation of adjustable workstations.

After watching this webinar you will be able to:

• Describe the adverse health outcomes of prolonged sitting;
• List workplace strategies to increase physical activity, and break up prolonged sitting;
• Describe the advantages, disadvantages, practicality and convenience of the adjustable workstations from both an employee, and an employer perspective.

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