Occupational Health
The relationship between work, working conditions and health: physical and psychosocial risk, musculoskeletal disorders, stress-related illness, sedentary behaviour and the regulatory frameworks governing workplace health and safety.
It defines the floor beneath every workplace strategy: the health obligations that are not trade-off candidates. It also supplies robust evidence on issues strategy routinely touches — sedentary risk, psychosocial load, recovery — and the regulatory grammar (risk assessment, duty of care) that governance must speak.
- Which workplace conditions carry evidenced health risk?
- What does the regulatory duty of care require of workplace design and policy?
- How do psychosocial risks — overload, isolation, low control — interact with workplace arrangements?
- What does the evidence support on movement, ergonomics and recovery at work?
- Occupational health and safety research and epidemiology
- Regulatory frameworks and national OSH standards
- Absence, injury and health-surveillance data
- Psychosocial risk assessment literature
Ergonomic adequacy across shared settings (harder than assigned ones); movement designed into circulation and setting variety; psychosocial risk assessed for policy changes, not only physical ones; home-work arrangements included in the duty-of-care perimeter.
Kit of Parts
The definition of the complete workplace setting system — every setting type, its purpose, quantity, requirements and behavioural logic — from focus and team settings to hospitality, wellbeing and specialist environments.
Workplace Passport
A consent-aware individual workplace profile — proprietary to the Workplaced platform — through which employees express the conditions under which they can work effectively.
Architectural Guidance
The translation of the concept and kit into design-governing guidance: spatial, environmental, acoustic, lighting, thermal, biophilic, accessibility, technology and identity requirements the design team must satisfy.
Post-Occupancy Evaluation
The structured test of whether the delivered workplace performs as the strategy claimed — measured against the baselines, criteria and accepted sacrifices recorded before it was built.
Wellbeing-washing: yoga rooms and fruit baskets presented as occupational health while evidenced risks — sedentary hours, psychosocial overload, poor ergonomics in shared settings — go unaddressed. Health claims for workplace features should meet the same evidence standard as any health claim.
The occupational-health profile of sustained hybrid work — home ergonomics, isolation effects, blurred recovery — is accumulating evidence but remains without long-run studies.