Every Friday we pass on a few health and safety resources we enjoyed throughout the week in a “Best of the Week” post.
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Health & Safety Links
Building the Foundation for Sustainable Safety Culture
EHS Today
There are four cornerstones on which an effective safety culture can be built: leading indicators, accountability, good relationships and discretionary effort …
Ergonomics Helps Employees Reduce Pain, Improve Production
Southest Missourian
Working in front of a computer all day can literally be a pain in the neck. Or back. Or shoulder. Or wrist. A poorly arranged workstation and bad posture can lead to health issues and lower productivity. That’s where ergonomics — the science of fitting the workplace environment and job demands to the working population — comes in …
Ergonomics in the Workplace
Grainger
“Ergonomics” comes from two Greek words: ergos, meaning work, and nomos, meaning laws. Today ergonomics is defined as the science of designing the workplace to accommodate the worker. A Polish scientist and educator by the name of Wojciech Jatrzebowski first introduced ergonomics more than 120 years ago …
From the Ergonomics Plus blog
From the Ergonomics Plus blog this week:
