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Ergonomics and Injury Prevention Guidelines by Industry

Looking for specific ergonomics and injury prevention guidance for your industry? Look no further. We’ve compiled an extensive library of industry-specific ergonomics and injury prevention guidelines on this page.

Ergonomics and Injury Prevention Guidelines by Industry

Ergonomics

Ergonomics and Human Factors: Looking Back to Look Forward

“Despite the shortage of HF/E specialists, HF/E is becoming more popular. Over the last decade or so, the term ‘human factors’ and HF/E issues have gained currency with an increasing range of people, professions, organisations and industries. This is a significant development, bringing what might seem like a niche discipline into the open, to a wider set of stakeholders. In healthcare, there is now significant participation in discussions about ‘human factors’, which can be seen especially on twitter. The same can be seen in other industries, especially new sectors such as web operations and engineering. Front-line workers know that HF/E is relevant. It’s kind of obvious that work should be designed for human needs and characteristics. The difficulty seems to be in getting commitment for resource at upper levels.”

Ergonomics and Human Factors: Looking Back to Look Forward

The Importance of Ergonomics as a Continuous Improvement Process

The ergonomics process needs to be baked into your organization’s DNA and aligned with strategic initiatives. It needs to be a part of the daily, weekly, monthly and annual rhythms in the way you manage your company.

The Importance of Ergonomics as a Continuous Improvement Process

Workplace Athlete Health

The Way to Well-Being

To be sure, self-improvement requires effort and discipline, and the latest diet and lifestyle crazes are often cocktails of unsubstantiated claims and promises. Yet science has identified a variety of methods that can help us to live better lives. In this special issue, we explain what the latest research has discovered about attaining professional success, finding contentment in life, and increasing physical and emotional wellness.

The Way to Well-Being

A Short Guide to Workplace Athlete Health Promotion

When combined with a proactive ergonomics improvement process, the following workplace athlete health promotion tactics lower injury risk and advance the overall health and well-being of workplace athletes.

A Short Guide to Workplace Athlete Health Promotion

Safety Leadership

Question No. 1 to Develop Your Safety Excellence Strategy

Organizations need but often lack a clear safety excellence strategy focused on creating value for the organization and people within. Strategy is about choices, small bets and tradeoffs an organization makes to create and deliver sustainable value. This article and the ones to follow will outline questions to help you better determine goals, priorities and initiatives that support them, as well as a balanced scorecard to strategically lead your organization toward excellence in performance and culture.

Question No. 1 to Develop Your Safety Excellence Strategy