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. Transformational Leadership May Boost Employee Well-Being 
“Transformational leadership has been praised for stimulating innovation and worker performance – but a new study reveals it might boost employee mental health and well-being, too.”

2. Using Storytelling to Drive Wellness in the Workplace 
Stories are the way that humans make sense of the world. When your colleagues ask you about how you spent your weekend, you don’t start with facts and figures. You tell them stories.

3. Eight Fundamental Ergonomics Principles for Better Work Performance 
Have you ever heard the term, “ergo eyes”? It’s an expression that means seeing the world through the lens of fundamental ergonomic principles. Once you know and internalize these ergonomic principles, you’ll never want to go back.

4. The Bandwidth of Safety Management: How much can you do at once? 
“One of the most common mistakes organizations and safety professionals make is to try to do too much at once.  It seems logical that more safety-related activities should create better safety awareness and thus result in improved safety performance.  This is seldom what happens.”

5. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Safety Leaders 
We all get 24 hours in a day. For many of us in the health & safety profession, it doesn’t seem like enough. There are always more reports to file, employees to tend to, and meetings on the calendar. We won’t ever get more time in the day, but what we can do is be more effective with that time.