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Featured Article
Do You Understand Musculoskeletal Disorders?
When a worker is exposed to MSD risk factors, they begin to fatigue. When fatigue outruns their body’s recovery system, they develop a musculoskeletal imbalance. Over time, as fatigue continues to outrun recovery and the musculoskeletal imbalance persists, a musculoskeletal disorder develops.
The Definition and Causes of Musculoskeletal Disorders
Ergonomics
A Comprehensive Guide to Sit-Stand Workstations
There is an overwhelming amount of information in the world, and more is being created every day. Just Google “sit stand desk” and you’ll get 12,500,000 results. With that kind of overwhelm, from time to time we publish our favorite resources on ergonomics and injury prevention topics. We do it to help you find the signal in the noise (and to save you the time and headache of doing it yourself). We hope to provide a balanced view with this guide to sit-stand workstations and to provide helpful resources along the way. Enjoy!
A Comprehensive Guide to Sit-Stand Workstations
How to Make Your Office More Ergonomically Correct
If your office leaves you with pain in your wrists, back or neck, it doesn’t have to be that way — in fact, it shouldn’t. Here’s how to fix it.
How to Make Your Office More Ergonomically Correct
Workplace Athlete Health
Improper Lift vs. Proper Lift
This helpful video from Peak Ergonomics shows firsthand the difference between a proper and improper lift.
Workplace Wellness: The Role of Ergonomics and Movement
By incorporating movement into the work day, employees can also reduce their risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders.
Workplace Wellness: The Role of Ergonomics and Movement
Safety Leadership
A Provocative Safety Question?
Harvard Professor Michael Porter posits, “Strategy is the creation of a unique and valuable position. It requires you to make trade-offs to choose what not to do. It involves creating ‘fit’ among a company’s activities.” How well do your safety and business efforts fit, and not compete, with each other?
This Shouldn’t Be a Provocative Question
