Paper Cuts – the white collar work place hazard

I’m currently at job number 5 of my career and luckily all of my jobs have been white collar. God knows how horrible I would be if I had to make things or fix things. Most people associate work place hazards with construction, chemicals, and other similar things. Don’t get me wrong, they are really dangerous but it doesn’t mean that white-collar jobs don’t also have many risks and hazards.

Paper cuts are not the only things, which affect the office worker. Don’t get me wrong, paper cuts are bad, you end up having a tiny gash, which ends up bleeding so much, and stinging. Other office hazards are usually long term, things like stress, wrist issues from typing, sight issues from constantly looking at computer screens, back pains from sitting on bad chairs, and so on. What are preventive measures that companies and governments doing for the increasing number of office workers?

There are laws where an employer must provide adequate office environment enhancements for disable employees to the point until it would take them out of business. But what laws are in place that assures healthy employees also get reasonable working conditions in order to stay healthy and not to burden the employer and the health system in the future.

There are so many things out there for after issues therapy but nothing really in place for prevention. Even for terminal illnesses the focus is always on treatment, never on prevention. Why does everything have to be about money? If things were prevented then corporations would not make money from of selling us stuff to treat our problems. I think in the coming years we need to stand up for ourselves in order to assure that white collar work places hazards are prevented. There needs to be more laws and public exposure to the real hazards of the office.