ERGONOMIC COMFORT IN THE WORK ENVIRONMENT AND ITS REFLEXES ON TEACHERS’ HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the impacts on the health and quality of life of Teachers based on ergonomic comfort in classrooms. However, seeking to achieve the proposed objective, a bibliographical research was carried out, which used articles, magazines, and studies that deal with the present theme presented in this study, as a source of theoretical basis. This study showed that teachers are daily and continuously exposed to ergonomic risks in the rooms in which they teach their classes, and these can influence their physical and mental health, as well as the quality of life and the classes taught. Therefore, Quality of Life at Work (QWL) is an increasingly studied and researched topic due to its important relevance and direct correlation with the maintenance of the individual’s overall health and provides better performance and consequently greater productivity and motivation of employees. . Given this, it was possible to conclude that through more organized work, there is a tendency to reduce the level of stress, increasing motivation and satisfaction, improving interpersonal relationships and making production processes more agile. And this is no different in the school work environment, where teachers need to be healthy to teach their classes with quality, as well as perform all their functions with excellence.