Why You Need to Take Care of Your Health and Safety at Your Job
When you are healthy and injury free, it is easy to feel invincible. Most of the time, people don’t even give much thought about how they are feeling unless something is wrong. It can be hard to remember that your well-being is a precious gift that needs to be safeguarded and protected. Here are three reasons why you need to take care of your health and safety at your job.
Avoid Burnout
Excessive, prolonged stress can lead to burnout. Burnout is just what its name suggests; it is a condition marked by severe physical, mental, and emotional exhaustion that leaves you feeling hopelessly drained. Burnout can weaken your immune system, causing you to pick up every cold and flu that comes around. You might feel tired all the time, even with sufficient sleep. Burnout wreaks havoc on your emotional health, as well. It can leave you feeling helpless, alone, cynical, and unmotivated. You might begin isolating yourself, performing poorly at work, self-medicating, and become increasingly irritable.
To avoid burnout, you need to maintain a proper life-balance. Work should never consume your life to the point that you no longer have time for socializing, relaxing, or spending time with family. Try to keep a healthy perspective—don’t be a perfectionist and learn to let go of the things you can’t control. Finally, take care of your health by getting enough sleep and exercise, and by maintaining a healthy diet.
Disability Can Hinder Your Career
If you experience an injury at work, you might assume that you can automatically fall back on disability payments. However, the law doesn’t cover every accident or illness. Your injury needs to fall under Social Security’s definition of disability. To be eligible for disability, your injury must be either life-threatening or last at least one year. If your injury is not life-threatening or long-lasting, you could be faced with a situation where you are unable to work for several months, but ineligible for disability.
Employees Have Safety Responsibilities at Work
While the OSHA has safety requirements for your employer based on your industry, you are required to cooperate in your own safety and well-being at work. As an employee, you are required to know and follow all your industry’s OSHA safety requirements, attend all safety training, wear your personal protective equipment, and be accountable for your own actions at work.
Don’t let a preventable illness or accident get in the way of your active, healthy lifestyle. Take the necessary precautions to stay well and maintain your productivity at work. You will never regret being careful.
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