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Workplace Ergonomics Articles

How to Cost-Justify Ergonomic Improvements 
Many ergonomic improvements can be implemented with low capital expenditures. However, when an ergonomic improvement requires a larger capital expenditure, cost can become a barrier to implementation. In these situations, it’s important to make a compelling business case for the ergonomic improvement using cost justification to prove a return on investment (ROI).

Office Ergonomics—Practical Solutions for a Safer Workplace 
This booklet provides you with the information and tools necessary to analyze office jobs, find problems and develop solutions for them. There is enough information here to allow a single employee to set up their own workstation to suit the way they work, and for a small-to-medium sized company to evaluate all of their office jobs and begin a comprehensive ergonomics problem.

JustStand.org 
The research is clear; we sit way too much in our modern sedentary culture. Visit JustStand.org for the facts and research on “sitting disease”.

Making a Business Case for Ergonomics 
Optimizing the work environment can have a dramatic and far reaching impact on your business, but only when you implement a comprehensive and far reaching ergonomics process. To do that, you’ll need to make the business case.

Free Ergonomics Handout: Ergonomics 101—The Science of Work 
Download our free employee handout on Ergonomics 101—The Science of Work.