Have you had any musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) at your facility in the past year?
Do you think you’ll have any this year?
If you’re like many industrial companies, you have recordable MSDs every year and it’s costing your company and employees.
According to the Liberty Mutual Workplace Safety Index, overexertion injuries alone accounted for more than $50 billion in direct workers compensation costs in 2011. With indirect costs being three to twenty times the amount …
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Why Workers are Stressed
EHS Today
A new poll reveals that job insecurity, job reorganization and high workloads are the most common causes of …
Editor’s Note: Injury prevention and wellness handouts are an effective (and inexpensive) way to educate and motivate employees to use good work practices and take care of their bodies.
Scroll to the bottom of this post for the free Wellness Handout PDF file.
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Healthy Cooking 101Americans are eating more and more food they don’t prepare themselves. The convenience of take-out dinners and microwaveable meals has made it almost too easy to stay out …
We all get 24 hours in a day.
For many of us in the health & safety profession, it doesn’t seem like enough. There are always more reports to file, employees to tend to, and meetings on the calendar.
We won’t ever get more time in the day, but what we can do is be more effective with that time.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen …
Every Friday we pass on a few health and safety resources we enjoyed throughout the week in a “Best of the Week” post.
If you’d like to get these links (and more) during the week, follow @ErgoPlus on Twitter and check out our Health+Safety News website.
Near-Miss Reporting: A Missing Link in Safety Culture
ASSE
Near-miss reporting, or the lack of it, is a controversial indicator of an organization’s safety culture. Over …
Editor’s Note: Injury prevention and wellness handouts are an effective (and inexpensive) way to educate and motivate employees to use good work practices and take care of their bodies.
Scroll to the bottom of this post for the free Wellness Handout PDF file.
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“Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and then begin to build.” ~ Robert Collier
Finding motivation to stay well…
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"Jill (Ergonomics Plus consultant) has done an absolutely amazing job. To give some perspective... I've been here 7 1/2 years and last year was the first time I've witnessed the "type of injury" experienced NOT be sprain/strain related. In fact, our results for 2012 were historic in that, we incurred the lowest number of recordable injuries in Pelco's 25 year history. Jill has been, and continues to be, a viable asset to our team.“
Layne Soares
Safety Manager at Pelco
