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(Updated and Expanded) The Ultimate Guide to Office Ergonomics

If you’re new to the office ergonomics game, you might be wondering where to get started. What does an ergonomics improvement process look like? How do you choose the right chair, keyboard, mouse and other office equipment? If you’re wondering about these things, relax. We’ve got you covered with a little help from some of our friends.

The Ultimate Guide to Office Ergonomics

Ergonomics

A Step-by-Step Guide to the RULA Assessment Tool

The RULA Assessment Tool was developed to evaluate the exposure of individual workers to ergonomic risk factors associated with upper extremity MSD. The RULA ergonomic assessment tool considers biomechanical and postural load requirements of job tasks/demands on the neck, trunk and upper extremities.

A Step-by-Step Guide to the RULA Assessment Tool

The 10-Step Workplace Ergonomics Checklist

A solid ergonomics process doesn’t have to be as complicated as rocket science or brain surgery, but it can be a little tricky to get all the right pieces in place for your ergonomics process to achieve sustainable results. Follow this 10-step workplace ergonomics checklist to get started on the right foundation.

The 10-Step Workplace Ergonomics Checklist

Workplace Athlete Health

Managing Health: Workplace Safety: Bio-Physics and the Industrial Athlete

One area of safety not traditionally addressed but that is becoming more mainstream, especially in recent years, is employee maintenance. Companies allocate extensive resources and spend large sums of money to maintain their equipment, tools and machinery, but what about their employees? Don’t they need to be maintained as well?

Managing Health: Workplace Safety: Bio-Physics and the Industrial Athlete

Workplace Stretching and Warm-up: Are Your Employees Ready for Work?

The employees at your company (we call them team members) probably aren’t Hall of Fame bound quarterbacks. But they are athletes ­– they are workplace athletes, and they must be mentally and physically ready for work. Like Peyton, their health, safety and work performance depends on it. And, in turn, so does your company’s health, safety and productivity.

Workplace Stretching and Warm-up: Are Your Employees Ready for Work?

Safety Leadership

Oversimplification: Four Approaches to Guarantee Limited Safety Improvement

One factor that often impedes organizational progress toward safety excellence is when leaders oversimplify the issues. Such leaders can be identified quickly by asking them for their definition of safety. When they start with the trite platitudes like “thinking before you act” or “paying attention” then you suspect they have an overly-simplistic view. Likewise, when they throw up their hands and admit they don’t know how to improve safety, it is an indicator that they either misunderstand or overly simplify the problem. Such leaders tend to practice and promote four approaches that almost guarantee limited safety improvement.

Oversimplification: Four Approaches to Guarantee Limited Safety Improvement