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Proactive Ergonomics: How to Implement the Workplace Improvement Process

A proactive ergonomics process identifies ergonomic risk factors and then reduces them through engineering and administrative controls before an injury occurs.

Proactive Ergonomics: How to Implement the Workplace Improvement Process

Ergonomics

6 Practical Tips for Better Power Tool Ergonomics

Learn practical ergonomics tips for selecting and using hand and power tools.

6 Practical Tips for Better Power Tool Ergonomics

Single- and Dual-Monitor Computer Setup: Ergonomic Tips

Everything about your computer setup – from the environment, chair, desk, mouse, keyboard and other items – should be designed and positioned based on the tasks you perform and your specific body measurements and personal factors.

Single- and Dual-Monitor Computer Setup: Ergonomic Tips

Workplace Athlete Health

15 Helpful Functional Capacity Evaluation Resources and Tools

“A functional capacity evaluation (FCE) evaluates an individual’s capacity to perform work activities related to his or her participation in employment (Soer et al., 2008). The FCE process compares the individual’s health status, and body functions and structures to the demands of the job and the work environment. In essence, an FCE’s primary purpose is to evaluate a person’s ability to participate in work, although other instrumental activities of daily living that support work performance may also be evaluated.”

15 Helpful Functional Capacity Evaluation Resources and Tools

OSHA Technical Page on Back Injuries and Disorders

“Although back injuries account for no work-related deaths, they do account for a significant amount of human suffering, loss of productivity, and economic burden on compensation systems. Back disorders are one of the leading causes of disability for people in their working years and afflict over 600,000 employees each year with a cost of about $50 billion annually in 1991 according to NIOSH. The frequency and economic impact of back injuries and disorders on the work force are expected to increase over the next several decades as the average age of the work force increases and medical costs go up.”

OSHA Technical Page on Back Injuries and Disorders

Safety Leadership

Showing Up: Step One of Safety Leadership

We have been told that the first step of doing any job is showing up. This is equally true of the job of leading safety. Leaders who are noticeably absent lose opportunities to effectively lead. Obviously leaders cannot be everywhere every time; but they can pick and choose key opportunities to emphasize the importance of safety with their presence.

Showing Up: Step One of Safety Leadership