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...
Approaching Safety and Ergonomics Strategically
Strategy entails both vision and action. And vision is more than being able to vertically look ahead toward most-desired (or, at the least, minimally...
Key Elements in Ergonomics Training
Training is a critical element of a successful occupational ergonomics program. Learning opportunities provide people with the means necessary to complete...
Realistic, Cost-Effective Ergonomics for Real People
To reduce the costs associated with injuries and wasted effort, ergonomic principles should be applied to every possible work area to boost productivity...
Selecting Healthy Hand Tools
Ergonomics often is described as matching human capabilities (physical, psychological, physiological and biomechanical) to the demands of a specific task....
Reducing the Risk of Manual Materials Handling
In the workplace, we can view manual materials handling (MMH) as any process in which the human operator is asked or required to lift, lower, push, pull,...
Ergonomics Part 3: Achieving Worker Buy-In
So says ergonomist Kent Hatcher of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Humantech Inc. Gaining worker buy-in should begin early in the process of designing your ergonomics...
Ergonomics: Risk Management Strategies
There are three risk factors that tend to work synergistically to create a risk of repetitive stress injuries, Hatcher explains. Those risk factors --...
Ohio Now Offering Online Ergonomics Classes for Its Employers
The bureau's new online class, Office Ergonomics Online, can help employers eliminate procedures that can contribute to the onset of carpal tunnel and...
Office Ergonomics: Let's Get Practical
Office Ergonomics... what is the essence of it? We all have our own concepts and philosophies when it comes to the optimal office setup. Yet over the...
How to Protect the Aging Work Force
Last month, we examined the physical changes that the body undergoes with age and the steps that employers can take to ensure that their workplaces are...
How to Protect the Aging Work Force
It is the smart administrator, engineer, safety professional or health provider who understands the value of the veteran employee as well as the problems...
Applying Manual Material-Handling Guidelines to Job Tasks
Manual material handling (MMH) activities are often of concern when assessing job tasks for risks that have the potential to lead to musculoskeletal disorders....
Management: The Role of the Ergonomist as a Business Management Asset
How many times do you think your accounting staff, human resources director, president or CEO have uttered the words, "This is the cost of doing business."...
Ergonomics: What's Next for the State of Washington?
he price tag of the campaign was steep estimated at $1.5 million but worth it, said supporters. In the weeks before the November 2003 election, television...
Ergonomics for the Lean Supply Chain
Welcome to the world of ergonomics, logistics and retailing. Ergonomics can play a vital role in supporting materials management and the retail aspect...
Ergonomic Aids for Industrial Workers
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) made up approximately one-third of all lost workday cases in 2001. While...
Workstations for Flexible Manufacturing Provide Ergonomic Benefits
Keeping the person on the assembly line as productive as possible through the shift is crucial. Helping to do just that is a new generation of mobile...
An Ergonomic "Win-Win" for Material Handling
Moving raw materials and finished products through a facility is a common process in industry. Throughout the process, operators routinely lift/lower,...
Surging Ergonomic Citations Draw Industry Ire
Now it is industry representatives who are crying foul. With the year scarcely half over, OSHA has already come out with 10 GDC ergonomic citations. More...
The Business Case for OSHA's Nursing Home Ergonomics Guidelines
In the aftermath of the bitter controversy over the ergonomics standard, putting the two words "OSHA" and "ergonomics" together in the same sentence is...
Industrial-Strength Back Injury Prevention
Each year, American workers suffer more than 300,000 lost-time injuries involving musculoskeletal disorders of the back, with the costs running into the...
Ergonomics and Manufacturing Excellence
While health and safety has always been a dynamic and challenging field, individuals now are being asked to demonstrate cost savings with resources that are more limited than ever...
Demystifying Ergonomic Correctness
How many times have you heard a product, whether it is a mouse, a chair or a keyboard, referred to as "ergonomically correct?" I consider that term, at...
What's the Best Office Posture?
The typical reaction to a ringing phone is to pick it up to see if it is your mother, a telemarketer or an important business call. Ergonomics Professor...
