7 ways your office job is damaging your health

The office isn’t an environment that most employees equate with danger.

In fact, the repetitive strain injuries risked by typing too strenuously and clicking one’s mouse too vigorously have become unsympathetically typecast as the go-to refuge of too-frail types or the I’ll-take-any-excuse-not-to-work types.

Those who preach about the dangers of the office often cause colleagues to mutter something about “so and so being a jobsworth” in their all-too-ardent hunt for the stray wire that could cause a building to explode or the incorrectly piled paper-stack that could accelerate the end of the world.

However, whilst the office space doesn’t pose too many acute dangers – just don’t tell that to the Health and Safety Rep – there are a slew of slowly-creeping threats that endanger employees.