Prevention Weekly is a newsletter from Ergonomics Plus highlighting the week’s best information and resources we found on ergonomics and injury prevention.

Featured Articles

1. Marketing Safety Within — Four Vital Elements 
“How effectively are you marketing safety? When an organization decides it wants to introduce a new product or service, teams are created to develop strategy and marketing plans to introduce the offering to the marketplace, and ultimately dominate the field. If safety is such a core element of your organization, how comparable is the effectiveness of your safety strategy to your business strategy?”

2. Three Strategies to Improve Corporate Safety 
“Today, there are a lot of discussions on safety; most of it on the process-side. Never before in history have we had better processes and procedures in safety. Never before in history have there been more certified safety professionals. So why isn’t the industry at Zero? Because safety is not a process problem. It is a people problem. The processes work – but only when people use them.”

3. Preventing Manual Handling Injuries 
There is no question that musculoskeletal disorders continue to be a leading cause of lost-time injuries among U.S. workers. Learn the fundamentals of preventing manual handling injuries in this article on OHS Online

4. Five Steps to Better Job Safety Analysis 
“Not all JSAs are created equally, and there are measures you can put in place to ensure that you are being as thorough and detailed as you need to be.”

5. The Consequences of a Reactive Approach to Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) 
MSDs are a painful experience for employees, a costly problem for organizations, and a major headache for safety leaders. A reactive approach to MSDs causes everyone to lose. Employees lose. Organizations lose. Safety leaders lose.