Ergonomics eNewsletter
Past Issues:
- June 2009 In This Issue:
1. Office Chair Design and the Potential Impact on Heart Rate
2. Creating a Culture of Construction Workplace Safety Around the Globe
3. Online Training's Got Game
4. Preventative Medicine for Occupational Diseases
5. Historical Perspectives Tour Gives Students Insight to Workplace Dangers
- May 2009 In This Issue:
1. Truck Driver Demographics and the Risk of Musculoskeletal Injuries
2. Obesity, Diabetes Interfere with Workplace Productivity
3. Speakers' Message: Don't Get Hurt on the Job like Me
4. Office Ergonomics Book Reveals Early-Stage Solutions
5. VSP: Annual Eye Exams Saved Companies Nearly $3 Billion Each Year
6. Healthy Hands Week is June 8-12, 2009
- April 2009 In This Issue:
1. At Ford, Ergonomics Meets Immersive Engineering
2. "Meetings on the Move" Can Increase Workplace Productivity
3. Capitalizing on an Aging Work Force
4. AANS Offers Outdoor Injury Prevention Tips
5. Study Suggests Age is Not Enough to Predict Worker Needs
- March 2009 In This Issue:
1. Health and Wellness: Exercise Is Important At Any Age
2. Winter Weather presents Osteoporosis and Foot and Ankle Fracture Danger for Older Workers
3. Center for Health Value Innovation Announces Leading Initiatives in Value-Based Health Design
4. The Effects of the Economy on Workplace Safety
5. NSC Introduces Distracted Driving Resource Kit - February 2009 In This Issue:
1. Most Disabling Workplace Injuries Cost $48.6 Billion
2. Australia: EHS Implications of Obesity for Workplace Designers
3. Preventing Extreme Sport Injuries
4. Workplace Environmental Changes May Help Prevent Obesity
5. Findings of Most Extensive Employer Survey On People with Disabilities Released - January 2009 In This Issue:
1. Snow Shoveling Safety Tips
2. Back Pain and How to Prevent it in 2009
3. NIOSH Study Reports Lower Workplace Injury Rates for Foreign-Born Workers
4. ACOEM Urges Daschle to Address Workforce Health and Productivity Issues
5. NIOSH Study Examines Safety, Health Implications of Firefighters' Boots - December 2008 In This Issue:
1. A Different Perspective on Ergonomics Assessment Tools
2. Gerdau Ameristeel Facility Wins Find It – Fix It Challenge
3. BLS: Workplace Injuries, Illnesses Decreased from 2006-2007
4. Former OSHA, NIOSH Heads Discuss OSHA’s Future
5. Beating the Stress of Workplace Injuries - November 2008 In This Issue:
1. Self-Established Ergonomic Standards
2. AAOS Issues New Carpal Tunnel Treatment Guidelines
3. Survey: Workers Risk Injury By Not Wearing PPE
4. International Safety: UK Injury Investigations on the Decline
5. EHS Out Loud Blog: Questions for an Increasingly “Irrelevant” OSHA - October 2008 In This Issue:
1. Where is the "Ergonomics Community"?
2. NSC Supports Uniform Injury Data Collection System
3. More Workers Employed After Traditional Retirement Years
4. EHS Out Loud Blog: Ring This Up to Caution?
5. Doing the Right Thing (And Doing It Successfully) - September 2008 In This Issue:
1. How to Choose - and Use - Ergonomic Hand Tools
2. Workplace Posture Can Cause Aching Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
3. The Office of the Future?
4. Safety Tips for Hurricane Cleanup and Recovery
5. Report Evaluates NIOSH Injury Prevention Program - August 2008 In This Issue:
1. Working and Playing in the Outdoor Heat
2. ANSI Dismisses Latest Appeal to Withdraw Construction Musculoskeletal Consensus Standard
3. Carpal Tunnel Culprits for Commuters
4. The Aging Work Force: Brains Over Brawn
5. The Benefits of a 4-Day Workweek
6. Gundersen Lutheran Health System is Recognized for Safe Lifting Leadership - July 2008 In This Issue:
1. Show Me the Safety
2. Investigation of Same-Level Slips and Falls Earns Researchers an Award from Liberty Mutual
3. Employers Take Active Role in Promoting Workplace Wellness
4. Portal Offers Healthcare Professionals Help in Starting, Sustaining a Safe Lifting Program
5. Humantech Supports Ergonomics Scholarship Program - June 2008 In This Issue:
1. Stripped-Down Ergonomics
2. Cirque du Soleil Considers Injury Prevention Program
3. Simple Steps to Prevent Back Pain
4. California Farm Operator Shut Down for Heat Illness Concerns
5. Personal "Productivity" Equipment Boosts Safety - May 2008 In This Issue:
1. Ergonomics Risk Assessment: Determining When, Why, Who and How You Should Perform One - Part II: Who and When
2. CAL/OSHA: Allow Workers to Acclimate to Heat
3. Podcast - Ergonomics and the Aging Workforce
4. Ergo Firm Contest Rewards Workplace Improvements
5. NIOSH Award Highlights Construction Ergonomics - April 2008 In This Issue:
1. Ergonomics Risk Assessment: Determining When, Why, Who and How You Should Perform One
2. New Warehouse Design Boosts Productivity
3. Survey Addresses Matting Systems and Environmental, Safety Issues
4. Worthington Puts Wellness to Work
5. Obesity Costly for Employers - March 2008 In This Issue:
1. Succession Planning
2. ANSI Board Rejects Appeal to Block Construction MSD Standard
3. Changing Perceptions of Slips and Falls One Step at a Time
4. OSHA Releases New Ergonomics Guidelines for Shipyards
5. Simple Solutions for Office Hazards
6. Poultry Industry Investigation Prompts Congressional Hearings - February 2008 In This Issue:
1. How to Hire an Ergonomist
2. Poultry Industry Strives to Improve Worker Safety
3. Education Helps Back Pain Patients Return to Work, Study Says
4. Heavy Lifting Training Won't Prevent Back Stains, Study Says
5. Grants to Boost Minnesota's Patient Handling Care - January 2008 In This Issue:
1. Ergonomics and Measurements
2. Get in Shape ... at Your Desk
3. AAOHN: Employers Can Give Workers a Healthy Start in the New Year
4. New Database Contains Aging Workforce Information - December 2007 In This Issue:
1. Trends in Office Ergonomics: Perception vs. Reality
2. Will You Still Need Me When I'm 64? Designing the Age-Friendly Workplace
3. Construction Industry Appeals Voluntary Ergonomics Standard
4. Ohio State Center Partners With Automotive Industries to Bolster Worker Protections, Minimize Health Care Costs
5. OSHA Adds Two Modules to Ergonomics E-Tool for Electrical Contractors
