Workshop "Prevention of physical inactivity at office workplaces"

Due to the growing number of office and VDU workplaces, increasing numbers of workers are affected by a lack of physical activity and permanent sitting at work and the associated health effects. As active breaks and leisure time activities alone might not be sufficient to compensate work-related physical inactivity, new concepts are needed that combine light physical activity with the performance of office tasks.

On 10th June 2015 the Institut für Arbeitsschutz der DGUV (IFA), research institute of the German Social Accident Insurance, hosted an international workshop on the topic of "Prevention of physical inactivity at office workplaces". The event was organized jointly with the Statutory Accident Insurance Institution in charge (Unfallkasse Post und Telekom). The workshop was geared towards scientists, practitioners, manufacturers and users of dynamic office workplaces as well as to ergonomists and occupational physicians. Participants were invited to exchange on the latest state of the art in the field of prevention of physical inactivity at office workplaces, including innovative design solutions and their implementation at company level.

The presentations from the workshop are available for download:

• Physical inactivity interventions at office workplaces – current scientific findings (PDF, 1.9 MB, non-accessible)
  Dr Dianne Commissaris
  BTR coaching, Netherlands
• IFA projects on prevention of physical inactivity at VDU-workplaces (PDF, 1.5 MB, non-accessible)
  Prof. Dr Rolf Ellegast
  IFA, Germany
• PEROSH activities in measuring physical activity@work (PDF, 1.2 MB, non-accessible)
  Dr Daniela Treutlein
  PEROSH, Germany
• How to successfully implement interventions that reduce physical inactivity at the workplace (PDF, 1.2 MB, non-accessible)
  Dr Marjolein Douwes
  TNO, Netherlands
• Dynamic workstations/dynamic office concepts – actual developments from different manufacturers
  
  The effect of active motion sitting on worker productivity and occupational sedentariness (PDF, 2.8 MB, non-accessible)
  Implications for design of dynamic workstations (PDF, 773 kB, non-accessible)
  Prof. Chris Leonhard
  The Chicago School of Professional Psychology at Xavier University of Louisiana, DuoDesk LLC, USA
  
  Practical requirements and concepts for dynamic working furniture. Do's and don'ts (PDF, 3.0 MB, non-accessible)
  Jan Beltman
  Markant office furniture, Netherlands
  
  Tips and trick to create awareness of workers required to reduce prolonged sitting (PDF, 10.8 MB, non-accessible)
  René Sielhorst
  Its My Life, Netherlands
  
  Smart chair BMA (PDF, 1.7 MB, non-accessible)
  Bas van der Doelen, Frank van den Bergh
  BMA Ergonomics, Netherlands
  
  Sit-/Stand workplaces, dynamic concepts (PDF, 585 kB, non-accessible)
  Energy consumption (PDF, 44 kB, non-accessible)
  Christian Hoch, Leuwico GmbH, Netherlands
• Joy of movement at workplace - a matter of organismic integration (PDF, 521 kB, non-accessible)
  Prof. Jens Kleinert German Sport University, Cologne, Germany
• Planned implementation of dynamic workstations in practice (PDF, 995 kB, non-accessible)
  Dr Ingeborg Eisenacher-Abelein, Christof Groß
  Deutsche Telekom, Germany