Health

Your easy guide to healthy ergonomic laptop use
Don’t head-hang when you use a laptop. Here's tips on what to do to stay comfortable and productive while you use your laptop. Banish those health risks!

The Oploft for healthy homeworking
Discover how Style & Decor blogger Sarah has transformed her studio into a healthier home working environment with a luxury sit-stand platform.

What helps to prevent shoulder pain when we’re doing office work?
This Posturite infographic about shoulders and shoulder pain shows you how good positioning and ergonomic equipment helps prevent shoulder pain at work. If you’re already suffering shoulder pain, there are tips too for working equipment to reduce your discomfort.

My day of sitting and standing to work at home
At home, how do you break up your working day? Do you move between sitting and standing and get moving? Meet some of the UK homeworkers who stand up for periods throughout the day to work, in a bid to be less sedentary for better health and wellbeing.

Your infographic guide to work from home back pain
Is working from home causing you back pain or discomfort? There are many common traps people fall into at home that can increase the risk of back pain. Download our homeworker's guide to back care infographic now.

10 bargains for the body under £40
This Top Ten of low-cost ergonomic products is a collection of great bargains which can benefit your physical health and solve issues in innovative ways. Perhaps you get back ache when you’re driving your car or wrist pain while working at a computer?

Ergonomic products – as recommended by real humans
Revealed! The humans who man the Posturite online chat are Vikki and Gareth, experienced DSE Assessors. Did you know you can get immediate ergonomic product help on the chat service? Meet the team and hear how they like to surprise customers like you – by not being bots!

Improving our posture: should we try to sit up straight?
Good posture means working to our body’s balance and strengths. This new infographic explores what posture is, how taking care of our posture can help us to avoid pain, and how we can feel more confident, happier and more active if we avoid slouching.

How to avoid and resolve hand, finger and wrist pain at work: an infographic
To avoid the discomfort, pain and loss of productivity caused by work-related upper limb disorders, it's important to take care of our arms, hands and shoulders at work. Our infographic explores some of the main problems and solutions to try.

The benefits of using ‘standing desks’: what’s the latest research?
A fascinating new study by the University of Leicester on reducing office workers’ sitting time is out. How does using height-adjustable desks, known by some as ‘standing desks’, affect physical, biochemical, psychological, and work-related health and performance?