Analyzing ergonomics in the workplace is an imperative practice for every type of business. The longer the issue is ignored, the more detrimental the injury will become. We can identify issues before they cause lost productivity.
Ergonomics considers the relationship between the worker, the actions or tasks inherent to that activity (job, school, play), and the environment in which the work is performed. When there is a mismatch between the physical requirements of the job and the physical capacity of the worker, musculoskeletal disorders may result.
Ergonomics is the practice of designing equipment and work tasks to conform to the capacity of the worker. It provides a means of adjusting the work environment and work practices to prevent injuries before they occur.
Our goal is to help you provide a safe and efficiently designed environment that maximizes productivity and minimizes injury potential.
If you have workers on temporary disability due to repetitive stress injuries or poor ergonomic environment, we can put them on the path for an early Return To Work.
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Assessments: Stop working in Pain!
Proof:Positive will analyze your operation and assist you in making the necessary changes to correct the identified problems. Certified Ergonomic Specialists evaluate your work environment and perform the following:
- Suggest options for solving ergonomic safety issues
- Assist in establishing or improving work-site injury and illness prevention programs
- Help employers identify hazards in the workplace
- Work with employers to identify and develop health and training for employees
- Provide employers with written reports to summarize findings
Whether computer terminal, assembly line, construction site, retail stores or someplace else, your employees do not have to work in pain.
Engineering and Design: Optimize Your Resources; Your Results!
In order for your products to be produced and your employees to work at optimal efficiency, there has to be a good relationship between:
- Design and layout
- Tools and equipment
- Motions performed biomechanically
- The entire flow process throughout an operation
Environmental: The Impact of Your Surroundings
Environmental factors can often be accommodated to a client’s temporary or long-term limitations. The ergonomic assessment may help remediation or prevention of further injury.
Proof:Positive ergonomic engineers are available to act as your representative to develop a scope of work, contract documentation, obtain bids and act as project manager to see all work is satisfactory to our specifications.
Training and Development: Custom design your Ergonomic Training!
Custom design training material and presentations from Proof:Positive’s array of subject matters that will be most useful to your employees.
Work and Consumer Products: Apply Ergonomics to enhance Performance and Profitability!
Proof:Positive will make available any and all tools needed, per our recommendations and findings.
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More Information about Ergonomics
The Origin of Ergonomics
Historically, ergonomics was another word for Human Factors. Today, Ergonomics commonly refers to designing work environments for maximizing safety and efficiency. Biometrics and Anthropometrics play a key role in this use of the word Ergonomics. Engineering Psychology often has a specialty dealing with Workplace or Occupational Ergonomics.
Companies once thought that there was a bottom-line tradeoff between safety and efficiency. Now they embrace ergonomics because they have learned that designing a safe work environment can also result in greater efficiency and productivity. Recently, U.S. laws requiring a safe work environment have stimulated great interest in Workplace Ergonomics – from ergonomic furniture to ergonomic training; however, it is in the design of the workplace as a whole where the greatest impact can be seen for both safety and efficiency.
The easier it is to do a job, the more likely it is to see gains in productivity due to greater efficiency. Analogously, the safer it is to do a job, the more likely it is to see gains in productivity due to reduced time off for injury. Workplace Ergonomics can address both of these issues concurrently by maximizing the workspace and equipment needed to do a job.
The Ergonomic Dilemma
Employers are always faced with the tradeoff between efficiency and productivity vs. employee safety and comfort. The good news is that they do not have to be a tradeoff. Rather, good ergonomic assessment and remedial design can also result in improved efficiency and productivity.
Employees’ time away from work due to injury reduces productivity, awkward equipment and procedures reduces efficiency, and violation of “compliance” requirements can certainly affect the bottom line. Creating an ergonomically effective workplace results in employee safety while increasing efficiency and productivity.
The “Application”
Proof:Positive Consulting can assist your company with ergonomic assessment, workplace design improvements, and staff training. We can make your workplace safe, efficient, and in compliance. Our Ergonomics Engineers apply a rigorous and systematic technique to ensure a hazard-free and worker-safe environment.
We use quantitative methods to evaluate the workplace and determine those areas that will most benefit from design and placement changes. Once the critical ergonomic hot spots have been identified and evaluated, we can re-design the problem areas to maximize the ergonomic impact. Finally, we can train your staff to self-monitor and regulate their ergonomic environment. The objective is to meet compliance requirements while increasing safety, efficiency, and productivity.
Our experience covers a wide range of workplace environments including the office, manufacturing floor, warehouse, and vehicles.
Evaluating Ergonomics Effectively:
If you want to save the office world from musculoskeletal disorders and discomfort, you have to know a lot more than ergonomics. You have to know how to get things done. The following thirteen (13) questions are what a lot of us may wish we had answered early in the game.
These questions are an excellent topic for safety managers, supervisors, and human resources departments. Divide ’em up, do the research (don’t just assume you know the answers), and discuss.