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Ergonomics Articles
1. The 30-Day Challenge: Improve Your Leadership Skills
We’ve all heard it, “Be a leader!” The question is: how do you enhance your leadership skills and gain new ones in the shortest amount of time?
2. Ten Office Ergonomics Tips to Help You Avoid Fatigue
Follow these quick and easy office ergonomics tips to decrease fatigue, discomfort and physical stress while also increasing comfort and productivity.
3. Selecting Ergonomic Analysis Tools
Preventing MSDs and increasing productivity generally requires a two-pronged application of ergonomics: a reactive program of identifying, analyzing and correcting “problem jobs”, and a proactive process of integrating ergonomics into process and product design.
4. Can Athletic Trainers in the Workplace Reduce Injuries and Associated Costs?
Ever hear of the “industrial athlete”? The concept is that employees, like athletes, perform better when they are properly trained and fit for duty. Proponents say that the right training leads to fewer injuries, quicker return to work, and reduced costs. Get more information here about the benefits of on-site athletic trainers.
5. Office Ergonomics for Proactive Safety and HR Leaders
Ergonomics is about making sure the work environment fits the worker — not the other way around. The goal of office ergonomics is to design office workstations so they fit the worker and allow for a comfortable working environment.
