How to Overcome Fatigue in Your Work Place

In our work places, fatigue causes low productivity, wastage of materials and break down of machines. You may experiences pains in your back, neck or headache because of working throughout without taking a break. This is unhealthy because human body requires sufficient time for rest. God gave us one day for resting. But why are we doing against His will?

Many businesses and industries are experiencing absenteeism of employee’s and strikes that have led to losses. This can be avoided if only they create a schedule that caters time for rest.

Fatigue is defined as the decrease in the capacity of a person to do work because of the previous work. This is the sum of the results of activity that manifest themselves in form of diminished capacity for doing work.

Fatigue, boredom and monotony are used interchangeably. Monotony is a mental tiredness caused by performing repetitive or routine job. Boredom is a depression caused by the desire to change an activity.

There are two aspects of fatigue. The first aspect is that it’s physiological in nature whereby the lactic acid is accumulated in your blood resulting to breakdown of tissues in your body.

The second aspect is that it’s a sort of negative appetite for work. If you continue working without any rest, you feel completely exhausted which results to tiredness that affects your brain, spinal cord, nerves and muscles.

Five Ways of Overcoming Fatigue

1. Short Working Hours

If you are fond of working for long hours without taking a break, then chances are that you’re exhausted. Schedule short working hours in your work place and in fact this leads to reduced absenteeism, accidents, sickness and negative feelings.

2. Improve the Environment

Poor Lighting and excessive sound makes you and other employees to have negative appetite for work. You should make efforts to improve the lighting system if it’s dim. The temperature of the room should be favorable.

3. Enlarge the Job

Employees are tired and bored from doing the same job every day. You should design various job activities so that you rotate them. By doing this, they learn new things pertaining to various jobs.

4. Music

Music reduces monotony and boredom if it’s played where employees do repetitive work each day. This makes them to feel less monotonous in doing their work.

5. Employee’s Compulsory Leave

Industries and business organizations should permit their employees a 30 days resting period. This makes them to visit places hence changing the usual environment they are used to. When they resume work, they will have gained energy and their minds would be freshened hence overcoming fatigue.