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Ergonomics

Ergonomics is the practice of adapting the job to the worker to reduce muscular injuries and upgrade the activities causing them.

Many hazards pose injury risks to an employee’s musculoskeletal system. A good example is carpal tunnel syndrome, a condition affecting the hand and wrist. Repetitive movements, vibration, temperature extremes, and awkward postures originating from improper work methods or improperly designed workstations, tools, and equipment are major causes.

This series of topics explores a wide assortment of muscular injuries then investigates methods to reduce or eliminate them by work teams, using their ingenuity, working closely with management.

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Fit the Job to the Worker, not the Worker to the Job.

Knowledge of basic ergonomic principles is important for both workers and employers because both share responsibility for a safe work environment.
Develop and use the many ergonomic illustrations in this Outline to promote teamwork, necessary to correct unforeseen problems.

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ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK!

Our poster graphics show 12 computer safety measures. If employees follow these measures like clockwork, computer MSD’s should disappear.

“Clockwork” means machinelike regularity and precision; perfectly.

Unlike computer ergonomic routines not all safety improvements need 12 steps as the numerous examples offered here prove. Use them to help workers identify ergonomic procedures to reduce the risk of injuries.

 

Ergonomics Helps to Adapt Jobs to the People Who Have to Perform Them.

Ergonomic solutions - a partnership between management and workers.

This simple statement has immense advantages for all. Probably nowhere in any workplace can major benefits be acquired so cheaply.

Employees really appreciate the comfort and safety ergonomics introduces.

Keep this topic on the boil; a fit, happy, secure workforce does not just appear.

Stretch to Protect Muscles and Joints.

Professional athletes warm-up before a game; why shouldn’t ordinary employees?

Discover, Why, Who, When and What to stretch.  Then learn How, from simple graphics that demonstrate correct exercises needed to loosen muscles and joints in the hands and arms; the back; hamstrings and pelvis.

What a fun way to start the day!
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Ergonomics Helps You to Work Safely.

Let’s have some fun! What is wrong with this picture?

But joking aside is there any such situations in your own workplace?

Employees must always be encouraged as team members to suggest workplace adjustments to make work activities more comfortable, more convenient or safer.

Use this material to have employees provide sometimes unspectacular, but sensible suggestions.

No Task Should Cause Serious Discomfort.

Discomfort should never be part of the job!

While it is an employer’s responsibility to provide a safe working environment, it is an employee’s obligation to report MSD symptoms.

This topic shows how ergonomics helps protect workers facing undue body strains and offers numerous examples of work place activity adjustments that really help.

 

Keep Joints in Neutral Positions When Performing Repetitive Tasks.

Is using a computer keyboard the ONLY way to cause Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

There is no one cause of CTS and this material lists numerous work related activities that will make employees more aware of the dangers from repeated rapid movements to the hands and wrists.

 Many circumstances will even raise your eyebrows!
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Report Strains; Help Find an Ergonomic Solution.

Reporting strains may not provide the same impact as fixing them yourself, but it’s the end result that counts.

This topic emphasizes work activities that cause body stress and lists many instances of work area tasks that can really be helped through ergonomics.

Educate employees to report problems. A WIN – WIN situation for all.

 

If Your Work Causes Aches and Pains…Report it.

Let employees know there are good and bad ways of performing a job and the bad ways can cause repetitive strain injuries.

How can RSI occur? This topic lists many examples including repeated vibrations through tools or constant motion repetitions using the same muscles.

Don’t let it happen – HAVE EMPLOYEES REPORT IT!

Ergonomics: Find ways to Fit the Task to Your Body.

Advice from a trained muscle therapist can often work wonders providing more comfort and safety for employees in their jobs.

This topic pinpoints workstation tasks that can be helped this way.

Solutions offered range from redesigning workstations to adjustments that can be made to tools and equipment to avoid strain.
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Keep Healthy With Good Work Habits While Working on Your Computer.

Here is a complete review on how to operate a computer safely.

Most employees think they already know, but wait until they read this topic’s contents.

It covers it all: the seat, desk, keyboard, fingers and wrists, eyes and posture.

It also offers helpful tips on body posture and “ tennis elbow”.

WOW, is there anything else?  FIND OUT!

 

A Change of Pace Avoids Pain and Strain.

This material opens the door wide as to what actually causes repetitive strain injuries.

Many repetitive actions are analyzed and advice given as to how to avoid such injuries.

While stating repetitive strain can occur anywhere, it suggests using common sense prevention ideas is most often the answer.

Is that true? Discuss this statement with your team.

Ergonomics … Finding Ways to Make the Task Fit You.

Adapting jobs to people who perform them is the priority of this topic.

It lists example after example of ergonomics at work making the workplace more comfortable and consequently safer.

Great opportunities exist here for your team to examine repetitive movements in their own work situations and then, using their ingenuity, reduce or eliminate them.
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AVOIDING REPETITIVE MOTION INJURIES

The focus here is not on the medical terms used, but on the vast number of repetitive motion injuries that occur each year.

The material itemizes preventable muscular injuries and establishes the activities that caused them. It also lists simple actions to prevent them.

“Train, don’t strain” is the watchword. This discusses how!

 

 

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