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. Avoiding Sprains and Strains to Ensure Workplace Safety
Safety in the workplace is extremely important, but sometimes repetitive job functions cause employees to overlook common safety measures that lead to injury, more specifically, sprains and strains. Practicing preventative measures daily can help employees avoid painful accidents that require time away from work and potentially lost wages for both the employer and the employee.
2. Ergonomic Risk Factors that Cause Injuries
A risk factor is a working condition that increases the chance of developing a musculoskeletal disorder (MSD). Each of the risk factors described here can cause problems. However, it is usually the case that workers are exposed to more than one risk factor at a time.
3. Five Proven Benefits of Workplace Ergonomics
Are you looking to reduce worker’s compensation and health care costs for your company? Is improving productivity one of your company’s core business objectives this year? How about improving product quality? If this is the case (and I’ll assume it is), then establishing or improving upon your company’s workplace ergonomics process should be on the top of your to-do list.
4. Manufacturer Learns Ergonomics is Worth the Investment
Most cost-benefit analysis of ergonomics programs will focus on reduction of worker’s compensation costs. This case study, however, found the biggest benefit of their ergonomics program was decreased absenteeism which netted them almost $300,000 in cost savings and a return of $5.50 for every $1 invested.
5. How to Build an Ergonomics Team That Gets Results
For many companies, getting started with ergonomics can seem like a Herculean task. The ergonomics process has many components, stakeholders and data points to track and manage. That’s where an effective and sustainable ergonomics team comes in. An ergonomics team is tasked with managing the ergonomics process, measuring the results and continuously improving the process.
