Have you ever noticed these poor ergonomics in life?

You must know 'ergonomics'. Now there are a lot of talk about this word. You may have never talked about it, but objects such as keyboard, office chair or even light that you want to buy or you are now using are now associated with this word and we tend to buy ergonomic office chairs, ergonomic shoes, etc.

Ergonomics is important to health and safety. It is a concept meaning environment fits us persons. In office, our office chairs or tasks are designed to fit individuals so that we can do the jobs without getting injured or with better efficiency. We may feel pain or stain when tasks or tools have poor ergonomic design.

Poor ergonomics result in quite a number of serious physical problems or poor ergonomics bring us unpleasant experience such as pain, numbness, stiffness, swelling or weakness. Poor ergonomics can also injure the back.

We are actually faced with ergonomic problems every day. Ergonomically, if the office chair or computer desk in our office is poor, with the height of the worktop not matching the height of chair, we might have very uncomfortable working experience. When we choose the best ergonomic chair to sit in comfortably, bad sitting posture over the time also causes back pain. If we keep a right sitting posture and sit in ergonomically designed chair, we sit in a workplace with not enough space for better body stretch or movement, our productivity will also be affected. All those problems would just affect our efficiency and satisfaction to jobs, or even bring injuries.



We can also feel bad ergonomics during plane journey or long travel. The chairs of plane or trains are sometimes designed with just single standards. That means, they can hardly fit both tall people and petite people, wide people or slim people. We may easily develop poor sitting posture because of the non-ergonomic seats. We have to keep such poor posture for rather long hours and our knees have to be compressed by the back of chair in front. As a result back pains occur.

Lighting also has something to do with ergonomics. Bad lighting in workplace will lead to eye fatigue and over time, it just cause drowsiness to work staff. Besides, strong lighting brings about dizziness and that might also affect our mental health. It is really necessary to maintain a right level of light and still keep a proper distance between our eyes and the screen of digital gadgets.

There are too many aspects of our life that may be linked with ergonomics. Try to know more and live a life ergonomically healthy.