Therefore, health promoting initiatives targeting workers with physically demanding jobs are highly warranted. Furthermore, the current demographic projections of an aging European workforce is likely to increase the burden. Pain and fatigue have been associated with reduced work ability and increased sickness absence, representing a large economic burden for organizations and society. Despite these efforts, the 2018 round of the Danish Work Environment and Health Study showed that most industrial workers experience pain several days each week, and feel fatigued during work. Accordingly, a common approach to prevent musculoskeletal pain and fatigue among industrial workers has been to reduce their physical work demands. This has been explained by their high physical work demands, shown to be associated with increased risk of musculoskeletal pain sickness absence due to pain, and early drop-out from work. Industrial workers have an increased risk for poor musculoskeletal health and shortened working life expectancy. Trial registrationĬlinical trial registration was assigned 10–09-2021 (ISRCTN80969503). The cluster randomized controlled study design and the evaluation of the implementation, results and costs of the intervention will make it capable of contributing with valuable evidence of how productive work may be designed to promote industrial workers’ health. This study will evaluate the effectiveness and implementation of a 12 - weeks Goldilocks Work intervention with the aim of improving musculoskeletal health among industrial workers. Furthermore, implementation and cost of the intervention will be evaluated based on questionnaires and data from the planning tool completed by the workers. The primary outcome is musculoskeletal health, measured by low back pain intensity, and secondary outcomes are 1) physical behaviors at work, 2) accumulated time in long bouts of sitting, standing, and being active and 3) perceived fatigue and energy during work. Data collection will consist of 1) questionnaires regarding work and musculoskeletal health, 2) wearable sensor measurements of the physical behavior, and 3) assessment of general health indicators, including BMI, blood pressure, and fat percentage. An expected 28 clusters of work teams across two participating production sites will be randomized to either intervention or control group. The second and third meetings will focus on supporting implementation of the tool in daily work. The first meeting educates the group to use a planning tool by which work can be planned to have ‘just right’ physical behaviors. Three meetings with a preselected local workplace group will be scheduled. Our implementation plan consists of educating work teams, organizing implementation meetings, and providing feedback to workers. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to conduct a cluster randomised controlled trial investigating health effects of implementing the Goldilocks Work intervention among industrial workers. sitting, standing and being active) in a direction that may promote health among industrial workers. We recently showed that it is feasible to develop and implement modifications to productive work that change physical behaviors (i.e. The Goldilocks Work Principle expresses that productive work should be designed to promote workers’ health.
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