The 2026 Virtual Ergonomics Conference held this year provided insights into a cohesive strategy for optimizing your ergonomics process from execution fundamentals and engagement to systems, scalability, and communicating business impact.
If you missed the event, the Ergonomics Conference Kit offers a collection of highlights to give you the most important takeaways from each session quickly, clearly, and with context.
The Big Picture: A Connected Strategy
What makes the sessions valuable isn’t just the individual insights, it’s how they connect to paint the full picture of ergonomics process improvement:
Session 1: Established the need for execution in addition to assessment
Session 2: Showed how to activate people through engagement and the spirit of competition
Session 3: Laid out the structure for a world-class ergonomics process
Session 4: Demonstrated how process can scale across your organization
Session 5: Created clear connection between ergonomics and business performance
Together, they form a complete roadmap for modern ergonomics process management, one that moves beyond compliance and into continuous improvement, operational excellence, and measurable ROI.
High-Level Session Recap
Session 1: AI-Supported Decision-Making for Prevention and Control Measures in Ergonomics Evaluations
Presenters: Ricardo Massola, MSc, EPIC & Blake McGowan, CPE, VelocityEHS
Session 1 focused on a common failure point: organizations invest heavily in ergonomics assessments, but struggle to turn those insights into action. The key takeaway? MSD risk assessment is only the first step. Real impact comes from executing improvements supported by structured processes and AI-driven decision-making.
Session 2: Fostering Engagement and Innovation: Launching an Internal Ergo Cup Competition
Presenter: Blake McGowan, CPE, Ergonomics, VelocityEHS
This session introduced the Ergonomics Cup model. It’s an engagement-driven approach that turns employees into active contributors. The central theme was clear: ergonomics scales through people. When improvement is visible, simple, and shared, participation and impact increase dramatically.
Session 3: Ergonomics in Action: Live Software Demo, Including AI Hands & Wrists Assessment
Presenter: Jaclyn Faraci, CPE, CSP, VelocityEHS
This session demonstrated how to operationalize ergonomics through a structured software system. Built around a Learn–Do–Manage framework, it showed how organizations can move from fragmented efforts to a scalable model supported by AI, motion capture, standardized workflows, and embedded expertise.
Session 4: Scaling Ergonomics with Intention: Givaudan’s Successful 10-Site Evolution
Presenters: Jeff Kussin, Givaudan; Cindy Festge, Fit For Work; Kent Hatcher, CPE, VelocityEHS
This real-world case study highlighted how ergonomics programs can successfully scale across locations. The core insight: standardize the system, not the solution. With clear governance, cadence, and cross-functional ownership, organizations can achieve measurable, sustained improvements across sites.
Session 5: Finance 101 for Safety Professionals: How Ergonomics-Related Injuries Impact Your Corporate Financial Statements
Presenter: Blake McGowan, CPE, Ergonomics
This session reframed ergonomics as a financial performance driver. By connecting ergonomic risk to COGS, labor costs, and revenue, it showed how organizations can unlock investment and elevate ergonomics from a safety initiative to a strategic business lever.
Don’t Just Learn the Strategy. Put It into Practice.
The Ergonomics Virtual Conference sessions point toward the same central truth: identifying risk is only the beginning. The real value comes from how quickly and effectively you act on it.
VelocityEHS Industrial Ergonomics is designed to help you do exactly that. With AI-powered capabilities like AI 3D Motion Capture and AI Hands & Wrists Assessment, you can:
- • Capture and analyze ergonomic risk in minutes, without wearables or complex setup
- • Identify high-risk tasks and prioritize what matters most
- • Automatically surface root causes and targeted improvement opportunities
- • Turn assessments into clear, actionable plans with ownership, timelines, and measurable outcomes
- • Validate improvements with before-and-after comparisons to track results over time
Instead of spending time collecting data that can easily get lost in the fray, your team can focus on what matters most: driving real, measurable change.
Built to Support the Strategy
The same principles covered across the Ergonomics Virtual Conference sessions are built directly into the VelocityEHS Industrial Ergonomics Solution, with tools to help you:
- • Quickly move from assessment to action with structured workflows and AI-driven decision-making
- • Drive engagement in your ergonomics process with simple, scalable tools that teams at all levels of expertise can use
- • Standardize your process in alignment with the Learn–Do–Manage system
- • Scale your ergonomics process consistently across sites with shared data and dashboards
- • Ensure accountability and transparent governance
- • Clearly communicate the business impact of your ergonomics process impact in terms of productivity, quality, and costs
VelocityEHS Industrial Ergonomics isn’t just software. It’s the technology foundation that turns ergonomics into a performance driver. Get started or see the software in action today.
