Prevention Weekly delivers the best ergonomics, workplace athlete health, and safety leadership news right to your inbox every week.
Featured Article
Should You Involve Team Members in the Ergonomics Process?
Have you been considering whether or not you should involve team members on the shop floor in the ergonomics process? Is it a good idea? Read this article to find out what seven ergonomics experts have to say on the subject.
Should You Involve Team Members in the Ergonomics Process?
Ergonomics
Ergonomics Training: Two Critically Important Elements for Success
The benefits of successful execution of your ergonomics process are many; reduced injuries and associated costs, productivity improvements and better product quality, to name just a few. While ergonomics isn’t rocket science, the most successful companies have a well-trained and well-equipped workforce to support the process.
Ergonomics Training: Two Critically Important Elements for Success
Why Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) Are the Most Common Injuries
The point is: we live in a cause-and-effect kind of world. Part of achieving a desired outcome is determining what will cause it to happen and then you go do that thing. And if you want to prevent something from happening, you need to determine the root cause of the outcome you’re hoping to avoid and then put measures in place to prevent that thing from happening.
Why Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) Are the Most Common Injuries
Workplace Athlete Health
Why Ergonomics & Wellness are a Powerful Match
A recent study by the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) suggests what we’ve known for years: The organizational divisions that separate health protection (safety and health / ergonomics) from health promotion (wellness) prevents optimal resource utilization and impedes efforts to maximize the overall health and productivity of the workforce.
Why Ergonomics & Wellness are a Powerful Match
A Guide to MSD Prevention Roles and Responsibilities
A business process is only as effective as the people behind it. That is why it’s so important everyone in your organization, managers and employees alike, know what the blueprint for MSD prevention looks like and what is expected of them. Everyone needs to understand their role and how leadership will hold them accountable for meeting their MSD prevention process responsibilities.
A Guide to MSD Prevention Roles and Responsibilities
Safety Leadership
A Timeline of Safety Progress: Aligning Others and Minimizing Change Resistors
Executives are often asked to summarize highlights of their safety successes and are given mere seconds to do so. Whether they have a captive audience in an elevator, directors in a boardroom, or a large group of shareholders at the annual meeting, time and attention spans are in short supply. Today, audiences are busy, overloaded with information from a pipeline rife with data. Executives struggle to find time to study even the most significant information, so there’s much to gain by boiling down large amounts of data into digestible, visual increments to clearly communicate the message.
A Timeline of Safety Progress: Aligning Others and Minimizing Change Resistors
Ergonomics Plus solutions help proactive safety teams prevent musculoskeletal injuries and advance employee well-being.
