Regulations & Compliance

Chicago (November 3, 2020) — VelocityEHS, the global leader in cloud-based environment, health, safety (EHS) and sustainability solutions, announced that its VelocityEHS office in Ann Arbor, Michigan has been named one of the Best and Brightest Companies To Work For® in Metropolitan Detroit. This is the eighth year VelocityEHS’ office has received this designation, which honors […]

by Jennie Dustin, CPE, CSP and Rick Barker, CPE, CSP For a growing number of people, working from home is transitioning from what we thought was a temporary thing to a much longer, perhaps even permanent, change. The novelty of working from home wore off weeks or even months ago. The unique stresses of a […]

The ergonomics team at Danfoss Power Solutions exceeded its ergonomics risk assessment goal by nearly 300 percent in 2019. Senior EHS Manager Jeff Mann highlighted the company’s transition from a more manual risk assessment process to VelocityEHS’ sensorless motion-capture technology during the session, “How Technology is Transforming EHS” at the 2020 NAEM EHS & Sustainability […]

If you didn’t get a chance to attend the NAEM EHS & Sustainability Forum last week, don’t worry! We’ll share what we learned from the experts and business leaders who participated in the stacked agenda. One of our favorite sessions was “Managing EHS&S Risks in the New Reality.” Moderated by Beth Myers-Graham, Senior Vice President, AECOM, […]

I have been working in the field of ergonomics for the past five years. During this time, I have had the opportunity to work with many clients to help them establish an ergonomics process; to do this you must understand what issues you are trying to solve and how to interpret the results. As an […]

Safety managers have many different workplace risks to assess and control, but they don’t always adequately identify and address psychosocial risks. These are sources of anxiety for workers that result from a multitude of factors including the ways that work is organized (e.g. length of shifts, numbers of consecutive days worked), ways that job tasks […]

Having a majority of employees working remotely is a new concept for most companies. Our previous post highlighted how online office ergonomics software can quickly and effectively reduce employee musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) resulting from improper workstation setup, like carpal tunnel syndrome and neck or back pain, while improving employee productivity and work satisfaction. Ergonomics software that lets employees learn, […]

COSHH, or Control of Substances Hazardous to Health, is a set of regulations under the U.K.’s Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to protect workers from health hazards when working with specific substances and materials. COSHH includes a Risk Assessment component that, while a regulatory compliance requirement for some, is increasingly becoming a best practice around […]

Many of us have been working from home, and this has forced us to get creative with our work-from-home environments. Some have turned closets into office spaces, and others have gone all-out, building their own sit-to-stand workstations. By now we’ve learned some shortcuts to make up for the lack of an extra monitor, such as […]