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Video — Proper Lifting Techniques

Educating employees on proper lifting techniques should be a key employee training objective in your education program. Workers are making decisions moment by moment that affect their work and the toll it takes on their bodies. Educated decisions and behaviors require education!

Video — Proper Lifting Techniques

Ergonomics

8 Fundamental Ergonomic Principles for Better Work Performance

It’s an expression that means seeing the world through the lens of fundamental ergonomic principles. Once you know and internalize these ergonomic principles, you’ll never want to go back. Just imagine walking through the plant floor and instantly being able to identify risk factors that contribute to soft tissue injuries and disorders. Seeing the world through ergo eyes is like being able to see the potential injuries that could mar your stellar safety record so you can proactively make workplace design improvements to prevent that from happening.

8 Fundamental Ergonomic Principles for Better Work Performance

The Definition, Domains, and Applications of Ergonomics

The word ergonomics comes from the Greek word “ergon” which means work and “nomos” which means laws. It’s essentially the “laws of work” or “science of work”. Good ergonomic design removes incompatibilities between the work and the worker and creates the optimal work environment.

The Definition, Domains, and Applications of Ergonomics

Workplace Athlete Health

Download a Free Collection of Workplace Athlete Educational Handouts

If the employees at your company use their bodies to earn a living, then they are what we call workplace athletes. They need to be educated and trained accordingly.

Download a Free Collection of Workplace Athlete Educational Handouts

Hydration: Why It’s So Important

Your body depends on water to survive. Every cell, tissue, and organ in your body needs water to work properly. For example, your body uses water to maintain its temperature, remove waste, and lubricate your joints. Water is needed for overall good health.

Hydration: Why It’s So Important

Safety Leadership

Thinking Differently: How Progress Begins

What stories can you tell to change how people view safety and its role in the organization? What stories can help them recognize safety adds value to production rather than competes with it? What stories can help redefine safety excellence, how others have achieved it, what it takes to achieve and who is responsible for what? If you aren’t monitoring the storytelling and jokes told about or within safety, your efforts will be managed by it.

Thinking Differently: How Progress Begins