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Ergonomic Design: Industrial and Office Checklists for More Ergonomic Workstations

Good ergonomic design reduces MSD risk factors and boosts productivity. Use these ergonomic design checklists to build more ergonomic workstations.

Ergonomic Design: Industrial and Office Checklists for More Ergonomic Workstations

Ergonomics

Easy Ergonomics: A Guide to Selecting Non-Powered Hand Tools

The purpose of this booklet is to help you select or purchase the best available ergonomically designed non-powered hand tool. The information and the hand tool checklist are based on peer reviewed articles and expert input. The checklist has been evaluated for reliability in identifying the presence or absence of basic ergonomic design features. The right tool will help you reduce your risk of injury, such as carpal tunnel syndrome, tendonitis, or musclestrain.

Easy Ergonomics: A Guide to Selecting Non-Powered Hand Tools

Ergonomic Guidelines for User-Interface Design

The following points are guidelines to good software interface design, not an absolute set of rules to be blindly followed. These guidelines apply to the content of screens. In addition to following these guidelines, effective software also necessitates using techniques, such as ‘storyboarding’, to ensure that the flow of information from screen to screen is logical, follows user expectations, and follows task requirements.

Ergonomic Guidelines for User-Interface Design

Workplace Athlete Health

Study: Barriers to Successful MSD Prevention

This scoping review identified common barriers and facilitators encountered during the implementation of changes to prevent musculoskeletal disorders (MSD) and examined their relationship with those encountered in general Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) efforts.

Study: Barriers to Successful MSD Prevention

The Causes of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)

The only way to prevent something is to know what caused it, understand what caused it and then systematically eliminate those causes. This is a foundational lesson because it is so vitally important that you understand what causes MSDs. This is where we see safety leaders get mixed up, and then spend precious resources trying to fix a problem they don’t fully understand.

The Causes of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)

Safety Leadership

Oversimplification: Four Approaches to Guarantee Limited Safety Improvement

One factor that often impedes organizational progress toward safety excellence is when leaders oversimplify the issues. Such leaders can be identified quickly by asking them for their definition of safety. When they start with the trite platitudes like “thinking before you act” or “paying attention” then you suspect they have an overly-simplistic view. Likewise, when they throw up their hands and admit they don’t know how to improve safety, it is an indicator that they either misunderstand or overly simplify the problem. Such leaders tend to practice and promote four approaches that almost guarantee limited safety improvement.

Oversimplification: Four Approaches to Guarantee Limited Safety Improvement