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. Evolving Your Safety Culture: Elements that Matter Most
Regardless of safety maturity, your safety culture goal should be to evolve, not create. Beliefs already exist. Behaviors are currently observable. The way we do things around here, why we do what we do, what is rewarded and what it takes to get ahead are all quickly apparent to individuals joining the rank and file. Unless you are starting a new company, bringing people together for the first time, your cultural focus on safety already exists, good, bad or indifferent. Now, how to improve it?

2. Developing an Effective Training and Development Program
“Learning objectives must be established and adhered to when developing a training program – otherwise, training activities may bear few results. Regardless of the training subject matter, training objectives should always address each component of the acronym KSA, which stands for knowledge, skills and attitudes.”

3. Safety Leader = Keeper of the Spring 
Safety leaders and those involved with workplace injury and illness prevention are indeed “The Keeper of the Spring”. Read this story and see if you don’t agree …

4. Eleven Ways to Avoid Back Pain  
Learn about 11 simple ways to avoid pain back. Incorporate these habits into your daily routine for a healthier, pain-free back.

5. How to Prevent Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) in Manual Material Handling Environments 
Manual material handling environments can be stressful on the human body. Lifting, carrying, moving, lowering, pushing, pulling — it can add up, especially when workplace athletes do it eight hours a day for a living. In this week’s article on the Ergonomics Plus blog, we uncovered the key to preventing MSDs in a consistent and predictable way.