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Warehouse Ergonomics Tips to Decrease Injury Risk
The approximately 705,000 workers in the warehousing and storage sector of industry perform a wide variety of manual handling tasks. Learn how to use basic ergonomic principles to minimize ergonomic risk factors such as awkward body postures and high-applied forces.
Warehouse Ergonomics Tips to Decrease Injury Risk
Ergonomics
10 Tips for Effective Prevention
Ergonomics helps employers design jobs or workplaces to match workers’ capabilities and limitations. Making adjustments to protect workers need not be costly, difficult or frustrating. Here are ten tips employers can use to protect their workers and their company’s bottom line from the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries.
10 Tips for Effective Prevention
Office Ergonomics Tips
Correct placement of a monitor and keyboard can reduce eye, arm, shoulder and neck fatigue. Follow these tips from ErgoTron whenever working at a computer workstation.
Workplace Athlete Health
Working in the Power Zone (and Other Safety Material Handling Tips for Retailers)
Designed for retailers and safety experts, this NIOSH booklet has a goal to prevent manual material handling injuries in grocery stores. Manual material handling injuries, also called overexertion injuries, account for 60% of the injuries and lost work in select retail businesses. This 23-page booklet has 13 unique illustrations showing employees in a grocery store using various mechanical assist devices for material handling tasks.
Working in the Power Zone (and Other Safety Material Handling Tips for Retailers)
Truth vs. Myth: Using Industrial Back Belts to Prevent Low Back Injuries
Low back injuries are some of the most common and costly injuries in the workplace today. Is using industrial back belts to prevent low back injuries a good idea? That’s what we’re about to explore together in this installment of our Truth vs Myth series.
Truth vs. Myth: Using Industrial Back Belts to Prevent Low Back Injuries
Safety Leadership
The Tribal Knowledge of Safety
Organizations that undervalue their tribal knowledge often do so to their own detriment. When you see people exiting, ask yourself what knowledge and skills they are taking with them and how you can capture it.
The Tribal Knowledge of Safety
