Health-saving technologies in the workplace as individually assessed by employees

Abstract

Aim – to study the attitude of employees of various professions to a healthy lifestyle (HLS) and their assessment of the health-saving technologies used in the workplace. Material and methods. 210 workers took part in the survey. The questionnaire included 24 questions aimed at employees' ideas about a healthy lifestyle, health-saving technologies and a system of health-saving measures at the enterprise. The obtained data were subjected to mathematical and statistical processing. Results. The analysis of participants' responses revealed the clear understanding among the respondents about a healthy lifestyle, however, the proportion of people following the principles of HLS was low in each of the two groups formed by industry. The respondents considered the lack of time, financial problems, lack of perseverance and willpower to be the main reasons preventing compliance with a healthy lifestyle. The most popular measures of health-preservation were compliance with sleep and rest regimen, annual medical examination. At an enterprise level, insufficient attention was paid to ensuring safe working conditions using innovative technologies and collective means of protection. Various ways of compensating employees for working in harmful working conditions were rarely used, as well as means of encouraging and increasing employees' motivation for healthy lifestyle. Conclusion. In order to solve the problem of employees' health protection and to achieve work longevity, it is necessary to redesign the legislative requirements for the introduction of comprehensive health and healthy lifestyle promoting programs in the workplace.

Keywords

• employees
• healthy lifestyle
• health-saving care in the workplace