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The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Safety Leaders

We all get 24 hours in a day. For many of us in the health & safety profession, it doesn’t seem like enough. There are always more reports to file, employees to tend to, and meetings on the calendar. We won’t ever get more time in the day, but what we can do is be more effective with that time.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Safety Leaders

Ergonomics

Optimizing and Designing the Workplace for Aging (Chronologically Gifted) Workers

The purpose of ergonomics is to optimize human well-being and overall work system performance. In dealing with older workers the goal of ergonomics is to preserve/enhance the workers’ performance, productivity and health. The most effective way of doing this is through engineering controls, i.e. designing the job, equipment, tools and environment to eliminate or reduce risk factors that cause poor performance, injuries and illnesses.

Optimizing and Designing the Workplace for Aging (Chronologically Gifted) Workers

How to Build an Ergonomics Team That Gets Results

An ergonomics team is tasked with managing the ergonomics process, measuring the results and continuously improving the process. It’s important to build a sustainable and results-oriented team to manage the ergonomics process. Following are six steps to build an ergonomics team that gets results and lasts the test of time.

How to Build an Ergonomics Team That Gets Results

Workplace Athlete Health

Why Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) Are the Most Common Injuries

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

Ten Tips for Improving Posture and Ergonomics

Poor posture can easily become second nature, causing and aggravating episodes of back and neck pain and damaging spinal structures. Fortunately, the main factors affecting posture and ergonomics are completely within one’s ability to control and are not difficult to change.

Ten Tips for Improving Posture and Ergonomics

Safety Leadership

The Bandwidth of Safety Management: How much can you do at once?

One of the most common mistakes organizations and safety professionals make is to try to do too much at once. It seems logical that more safety-related activities should create better safety awareness and thus result in improved safety performance. This is seldom what happens. Too much at once results in overload and also blocks internalization of important safety principles and practices. Trying to eat the elephant in one bite chokes the eater and aggravates the elephant.

The Bandwidth of Safety Management: How much can you do at once?