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Keeping Your Early Intervention Program Compliant
The early intervention strategy employed by the Injury Prevention Specialists at ErgoPlus is about prevention, not treatment. Preventive consultations are available to each and every employee. The self-help techniques recommended are not therapeutic in nature, and serve as a means to help employees counteract daily fatigue.
Keeping Your Early Intervention Program Compliant
Ergonomics
Sedentary Work and Workplace Design
Learn how workplace design can impact the habits of employees and make their work life less sedentary.
Sedentary Work and Workplace Design
How Much Space Do We Need to Safely Do Office Work?
There is no one clear-cut answer to what seems like a simple question because the answer has to deal with many aspects. Major aspects include: nature of work, cultural aspects, a corporate climate, individual perception, and anthropometry.
Space Requirements for Office Work
Workplace Athlete Health
Free Injury Prevention Handout — Foot Pain Prevention
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
The Definition and Causes of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)
We use the term “musculoskeletal disorder” because it accurately describes the problem. Other common names for MSDs are “repetitive motion injury”, “repetitive stress injury”, “overuse injury” and many more. The problem with using that kind of terminology is that it implicates a singular cause for damage to the musculoskeletal system – repetition and stress. This is limiting because more and more research is pointing to multiple causative risk factors leading to MSDs.
The Definition and Causes of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)
Safety Leadership
Microlearning Safety
An important component of the fourth industrial revolution referred to as Industry 4.0 will be the adoption of new training techniques. Leading these new techniques is a process called “microlearning.” The gist of this approach is to shorten, focus, and increase the availability of training. Rather than having workers attend a 15-30-minute (or longer) workshop or computer-based training (CBT) module, they can access a 4-minute or less module on their phone or other smart device covering one important aspect of the training. A series of these modules can replace, or be used to reinforce, the longer classroom or CBT modules. In addition to being brief and readily available, they can be re-accessed as needed to refresh the worker on the issue.
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