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Ergonomics Articles
1. Five Steps to Conducting an Effective Ergonomic Risk Assessment
Conducting an ergonomic assessment is a foundational element of the ergonomics process. Your ergonomics improvement efforts will never get off the ground without being able to effectively assess jobs in your workplace for musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) risk factors.
2. What Influences Risky Behavior?
Do you focus more on the behavior or the influences upon it? There are four main influences on risky behavior: perceptions, habits, obstacles and barriers. How effective are you at identifying and responding to these influences?
3. Warning: Prolonged Sitting AND Standing Are Hazardous to Your Health
“Just Stand” seems to be the new office mantra these days. Companies and employees alike are looking for standing solutions for the office because of the research and attention that has been given to prolonged sitting in the past three to four years. Unfortunately, the narrow focus on sitting disease has virtually left the health issues associated with prolong standing in the back burner, if given any attention at all.
4. Hand Tool Ergonomics — Tool Design
Tool design (weight, shape, fit to the user and the task), workstation design (size, shape and layout), and the way tasks are scheduled are all key factors in making hand tool use safe and risk-free. Since, none of those three areas is more important then the other, an effective prevention strategy must address all of them simultaneously.
5. Workplace Ergonomics: How to Lower Costs and Improve Productivity
Ergonomics is the science of designing the workplace, keeping in mind the capabilities and limitations of the worker. Poor worksite design leads to fatigued, frustrated and hurting workers. This rarely leads to the most productive worker. More likely, it leads to a painful and costly injury, lower productivity and poor product quality.
