Costs to Productivity are Four Times Medical Costs for Injured or Sick Employees
The study, which appears in the July issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, quantifies the link between employee health and...
ASSE: Ergonomics at Goodyear
Rostykus, who helped Goodyear develop its global ergonomic improvement process, and Michael Porter, CIH, CSP, who is the director of global health, safety...
Ergonomic Standard Submitted to ANSI
In 2006, the ANSI A10.40 Committee, a subcommittee of the ANSI A10 Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) on Construction and Demolition Operations, balloted...
Partnership Improves Ergonomics at USPS
OSHA, USPS, the American Postal Workers Union and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union in 2003 formed a partnership to reduce MSDs among USPS' more...
AFL-CIO: Nation's Workplaces Too Unsafe
The union's annual report, Death on the Job: The Toll of Neglect, was released April 26 as a precurser to Workers Memorial Day on April 28. The report...
Michigan Manufacturers Vow to Continue Opposition to Ergonomics Legislation
The MMA agenda calls for reforming business taxes to ensure fairness, reducing and streamlining regulations, protecting Michigan's tort reforms that were...
The Globalization of Ergonomics Training
According to Silva, who has conducted training classes in other countries, programs and processes such as ergonomics should be rolled out in a consistent...
Study: Workers Who Lift Need More Breaks to Avoid Back Injury
The study, which appeared in the journal Clinical Biomechanics and is the first to examine what happens to muscle oxygen levels over a full work day,...
Don't Strain Yourself
by Josh Cable To the layperson, sprains and strains probably seem like small potatoes. Of all the calamities that life could visit upon a person, an ankle...
OSHA Adds Screen Printing Module to eTool
The new screen printing module is part of the agency's interactive Ergonomics in the Printing Industry eTool. "Employers and employees will benefit from...
Washington L&I Can Use General-Duty Clause to Enforce Ergonomics
Calling the language of Initiative 841 (I-841) "plain and unambiguous," the Supreme Court majority in an Oct. 19 opinion concluded that I-841 repealed...
Survey Reveals Importance of Ergonomics to U.S. Workers
Through a survey of nearly 700 office workers in the United States, the study revealed that more than half (64 percent) of Americans believe they know...
Ergonomics News October 17, 2006
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Making the Case for a Safe Lifting Program in Nursing Homes
NIOSH, in its guide titled Safe Lifting and Movement of Nursing Home Residents, notes a 100-bed nursing facility can expect to spend $25,000 to $30,000...
Assessing Fitness for Duty
Assessing fitness for duty is one of the most important aspects of safely returning injured employees to work. Determining when an injured employee can...
Fighting Back
Bend your knees. Keep your back straight. Lift with your legs. Now, repeat that mantra three times. Good. This concludes your back safety training. Clearly,...
OSHA Launches Flexography Module as Part of Ergonomics eTool
The module and the eTool are products of the agency's alliance with the Graphic Arts Coalition. "This is an important addition to a valuable resource...
Exercise Surpasses Ergonomics in Treating Work Injuries
Exercise, not ergonomics or other "conservative" methods such as physiotherapy, is the most effective strategy for treating work-related complaints of the upper body, according to studies performed in the Netherlands...
U.K.: Agency Targets Workplace Vibration Hazards, Hearing Damage
The program is designed to eliminate new cases of occupationally induced hearing damage and control new cases of hand-arm vibration syndrome. The program...
Fueling Ergonomics in the Oil and Gas Industry
The oil and gas industry has job requirements that are very labor-intensive, and if the employee is not regarded in the job design as well as the equipment...
After the Storm: Weighing in on the OSHA Ergonomic Guidelines
The controversy started in November 2000, when OSHA released an ergonomics rule that, according to industry representatives, would cost them anywhere...
Emerging Safety Threats at Loading Docks
A first-time back injury can cost as much as $10,000 when drugs, doctor's visits and physical therapy are factored into the ailment. And it gets worse....
Using Kaizen to Improve Safety and Ergonomics
Most companies do a decent job of documenting safety and ergonomic issues, but there is much room for improvement when it comes to following through with...
Michigan Senate OKs Bill to Thwart Ergonomics Standard
The Senate voted 22-14 along party lines for the bill, which is intended to impede Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration from requiring ergonomics...
Ergonomic Guidelines for Selecting Hand and Power Tools
These advances in tools also have created new challenges involving the complex interactions between users and their tools. Improper hand tool selection...
