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Issue 243

Ergonomics

Ergonomics for Remote Workers

Many employees working from home use their kitchen table or couch as their workstation, which can make adhering to the above best practices more difficult. Remote workers who are traveling for business or working outside of an office environment, such as in a car or coffee shop, may also overlook the importance of ergonomics. Consider providing the same ergonomic recommendations and resources to support your home-based remote employees that you provide to employees domiciled at your corporate offices.

How to Encourage Proper Ergonomics for Remote Workers

Time to Get Proactive

It is well established that ergonomics can benefit your organization in a number of ways. If you do it well, ergonomics can lower costs, boost productivity, increase employee morale, and even improve product quality to name a few benefits. If you do it well. That’s the key. Part of doing it well is to get proactive with your ergonomics process.

The Powerful Advantage of a Proactive Ergonomics Process

Workplace Athlete Health

The Connection Between Safety and Wellness

“There is a direct connection between safety and wellness, yet most companies treat these as separate initiatives and manage them in separate departments, using separate programs, budgets, measures, and reward systems. This is not an insignificant issue, because without properly connecting them under one integrated system, accidents, injuries, and lost productivity often result, as well as higher labor and insurance costs.”

Safety and Wellness: The Critical Connection

Prevent Foot Injuries

The foot plays a very important role when standing and walking. It must compensate for every structural abnormality in the skeleton above. The failure of the foot to adequately adapt to structural imperfections in the body can result in a breakdown of foot structure. It is this collapse of the foot – which leads to flat feet, heel spurs, bunions, plantar fasciitis, and many other chronic foot discomforts.

Free Injury Prevention Handout — Foot Pain Prevention

Safety Leadership

Stop Safety Training!

“We safety professionals who insist on using painfully tired old methods for meeting our training obligations are quietly killing the creature we hope to create. By turning training on its head, we have an opportunity to finally bring life to the vital discussion of safety and risk and how to bring the two into harmony.”

Stop Safety Training!