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NIOSH Lifting Equation Example – Dish Washing Machine Unloading
The following NIOSH Lifting Equation Example is from the NIOSH Lifting Equation Applications Manual has been adapted to show the proper use of the NIOSH Lifting Equation inside the ErgoPlus Platform. In addition, this example shows how this tool can be used to evaluate body mechanics recommendations and ergonomic redesign suggestions.
NIOSH Lifting Equation Example – Dish Washing Machine Unloading
Ergonomics
Study: Ergonomics Improves Job Satisfaction
A study by the Workplace Safety and Health Institute surveying Singaporean companies found that employees in companies with a comprehensive approach to workplace safety and ergonomics were 7.4 times more likely to be satisfied with their jobs. They were also 4.4 times more likely to be proud of working for the company.
Study: Ergonomics Improves Job Satisfaction
Ergonomics Training and Education for Maximum Human Performance
“Maximum human performance is achieved at the intersection of good workplace design and a healthy, fit and engaged workforce. An ergonomically efficient workstation with an unhealthy and unmotivated worker using poor work practices is not your goal. A healthy, motivated worker that is forced to work outside her body’s capabilities and limitations is not your goal. Your goal has to be a well-designed and efficient workstation within the capabilities and limitations of a healthy, fit and engaged worker.”
Ergonomics Training and Education for Maximum Human Performance
Workplace Athlete Health
The Ultimate Guide to Workplace Health Promotion
“Traditionally, workplace health and safety programs have been compartmentalized. Health protection programs have focused squarely on safety, reducing worker exposures to risk factors arising in the work environment itself. And most workplace health promotion programs have focused exclusively on lifestyle factors off-the-job that place workers at risk. A growing body of science supports the effectiveness of combining these efforts through workplace interventions that integrate health protection and health promotion programs.”
The Ultimate Guide to Workplace Health Promotion
5 Ways an Athletic Trainer Adds Value to Your Health and Safety Team
“Most safety leaders we talk to are stretched for time. Adding the elements of a world-class MSD prevention process into their daily routine would require them to clone themselves to get it all done. Adding an athletic trainer to the team solves that problem by providing additional support to your MSD prevention process.”
5 Ways an Athletic Trainer Adds Value to Your Health and Safety Team
Safety Leadership
Prevention Trumps Reaction
“I hope the legacy of our collective efforts in safety will ensure our children and grandchildren work in companies where injuries are no longer the impetus for safety improvement, and where, “We should have…” is no longer a part of the safety vernacular.”
