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. Five Ways to Improve Your Own Safety Leadership 
“Safety leadership has nothing to do with being a manager or supervisor. You don’t have to hold a safety management position to be a safety leader. A safety leader is someone who influences good decisions and positive behaviors. Anyone can do it if they are willing to put the work in. And the benefits are huge: to you and the people you lead.”

2. A Big Builder of Big Ships Finds Big Rewards in Employee Wellness 
“As the debate over rising health care costs continues, one innovative solution gaining ground is the value employers and workers are finding in workplace health care centers like the one Huntington Ingalls Industries recently opened in Mississippi.”

3. Ergonomic Considerations from Head to Toe 
Learn ergonomic considerations and design principles for each part of the body, from head to toe.

4. Injury Prevention Resources for Manufacturing 
See this resource page on the WorkSafeBC website for manufacturing injury prevention guides, checklists and other helpful tools.

5. Why Musculoskeletal Disorders Are the Most Common Injuries 
There’s a reason we wrote about the consequences of a reactive approach to MSDs last week. It’s the same reason (the way I see it) that MSDs are the most common injuries.