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Laptop Ergonomics: How to Avoid Fatigue and Discomfort
Using proper laptop ergonomics decreases fatigue and increases productivity. After all, it’s hard to do your best work when you’re dealing with neck and back pain! Read on to learn how to use your laptop for maximum comfort and productivity.
Laptop Ergonomics: How to Avoid Fatigue and Discomfort
Ergonomics
OSHA and Ergonomics: The Past, Present and Future
Ergonomics was a hot topic for OSHA in the 1990s, with the agency issuing a standard for ergonomics in 2000, which quickly was repealed in 2001. So why should employers continue to concern themselves with ergonomics?
OSHA and Ergonomics: The Past, Present and Future
Snook Tables Tip: Lifting and Lowering Adjustments
Want to conduct better assessments using the Snook Tables? See this video for training on Snook Tables lifting and lowering adjustments.
Snook Tables Tip: Lifting and Lowering Adjustments
Workplace Athlete Health
Can Our ‘Workplace Athletes’ Benefit from Athletic Trainers?
“Athletic trainers’ expertise in musculoskeletal health makes them a vital part of an occupational health care team whether working as independent contractors or employed through a company, clinic, hospital or other facility,” says NATA President Jim Thornton, MA, ATC, CES.
Can Our ‘Workplace Athletes’ Benefit from Athletic Trainers?
Tool for Measuring Increases in Productivity and Well-Being in the Workplace
“In order to quantify how a workplace affects productivity, creativity and well-being, we designed a science-based tool that is able to measure these specific criteria. The results of the pilot study reveal that productivity increases 63.34% and creativity 137.50% when a workplace with a nature-inspired design is combined with physical activity and mindfulness exercises, as well as training in how to use these types of spaces.”
Tool for Measuring Increases in Productivity and Well-Being in the Workplace
Safety Leadership
How Ergonomics Shapes Safety Culture
Your safety culture isn’t something you can buy. It isn’t made. It’s shaped – day by day, decision by decision, action by action. It’s your job – and everyone’s job – to shape your organization’s culture with the careful attention to detail of a master craftsman.
How Ergonomics Shapes Safety Culture
