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If you are ill, stay home Chef must be a role model in case of illness
Fall time is cold time. When it gets cold and cloudy outside, running noses and coughing colleagues are back to normal everyday life. Unfortunately, one has to say, because employees who appear ill at work not only risk their own health. Employers are especially responsible here.
Some employees go to work despite illness
Cough, headache, fever: Especially in the cold season, diseases such as the flu or cold again. However, many employees go to work despite illness. He risks not only his own health, but also those of others. The employers are not excluded here. Above all executives should be role models for health.
People who come to work with a cold or flu are also endangering the health of their colleagues. In such situations, the boss should be a role model and cure his own disease. (Image: Klaus Eppele / fotolia.com) Boss should not play the hero
If employees drag themselves to work despite illness, also the boss is in demand, reports the magazine "Certo" (issue 4/2016) of the legal accident insurance VBG. In such situations, he should be a role model: "If the boss is sick, he should not play the hero, but to ensure that he is as soon as possible fully operational - by staying at home and recovering," said the VBG occupational physician Dr. Jens Petersen.
Disease-related failure must not leave an unfulfillable gap
In addition, it is important to ensure that operations are organized in such a way that the sickness absence of employees does not fill an unfulfillable gap in the production process. It will be much easier for sick workers to take time to recover if a colleague who is also familiar with the area of responsibility can help.
Long-term damage to health threatens
If employees come to work sick, they usually perform worse. "In addition, there are long-term health risks for employees who never have the time to recover," says Petersen.
For example, according to the magazine, a study found that the risk of government officials developing coronary artery disease was doubled if they had pre-existing conditions as well as no absences in their jobs. (Ad)