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Featured Articles
1. Three Strategies for Safety Supervisor Coaching
“Supervisors influence worker behaviour more than any other level in an organization. However, most supervisors have not received formal training to coach for performance, much less to coach for safety performance. What often results is the belief that a supervisor’s role is to manage safety compliance (i.e., rules, policies, procedures, personal protective equipment). This restricted thinking limits a leader in his or her ability to increase performance output beyond the minimum. In this situation, creation of a culture of safety excellence becomes a near impossibility.”
2. How to Select the Correct Ergonomic Assessment Tool
Choosing the wrong ergonomic risk assessment tool is like trying to hammer a nail into the wall with a screw driver. It just doesn’t work. It’s frustrating, time consuming and the quality of your craftsmanship suffers.
3. How to Prevent Health Risks to Nomadic Workers
Workers are becoming increasingly “nomadic” in where they work thanks to the availability of mobile technology. But employers are not providing the same risk assessments and support for these employees as they do for those in traditional office-based work.
4. Can Your Workplace Athletes Benefit from Athletic Trainers?
“Athletic trainers’ expertise in musculoskeletal health makes them a vital part of an occupational health care team whether working as independent contractors or employed through a company, clinic, hospital or other facility,” says NATA President Jim Thornton, MA, ATC, CES.
5. Office Ergonomics: How to Select and Use a Keyboard
Selecting the right keyboard is an important part of designing your computer workstation. If you have the wrong keyboard setup right now, your aching hands and wrists likely agree with the previous statement. Learn how to select and use a keyboard in the latest article from the Ergonomics Plus blog.
