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It can be difficult gaining buy-in from an organization’s stakeholders for an ergonomics program. This is where our newest infographic, “Industrial Ergonomics: Why Businesses Should Care”, comes in handy. This detailed, one-page reference sheet shares the significant benefits of having an ergonomics program that will resonate with each group of stakeholders—health & safety, operations, human […]

With the ever-increasing availability and usage of smart phones, people are spending more time than ever on them—much more time than they should, especially younger generations. There has been a lot of discussion and many jokes surrounding how smart devices have impacted us mentally and emotionally, but what about physically? The “Smartphone Ergonomics: Applying Lean/Six […]

Before you can start an ergonomics program, you need buy-in from the leaders of each major division in your organization, the “stakeholders.” In order to gain their buy-in, they need to know why they should care about ergonomics, and how it will impact the business in ways that mean the most to them. Luckily, one […]

Having an accurate, easy-to-use ergonomics assessment tool for evaluating the risk of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) is valuable—requiring less time for training, mastery, and ongoing use. Historically, MSD risk assessment tools designed by non-ergonomists had to trade off accuracy and specificity to be viable for cross-functional ergonomics teams. Recent advances in artificial intelligence and sensorless motion […]

In December 2020, Health Canada published Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 154, Number 51 containing Health Canada’s proposed amendments to the Hazardous Products Regulations (HPR). These latest amendments seek to align Canada’s Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) with the seventh revised edition of the UN’s Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS Revision 7). Join our […]

If you’re a chemical manufacturer or importer, are you currently meeting requirements for information required in Section 1 of an SDS? During webinars and in-person events, we often get questions from safety professionals, chemical manufacturers and chemical importers regarding the emergency number requirement. Both HazCom2012 in the United States and WHMIS 2015 in Canada require […]

OSHA recently published a long-awaited notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) that would update its Hazard Communication Standard (HazCom) to align with Revision 7 of the UN’s Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS). We’ve been talking about OSHA’s plan to realign the HazCom Standard with a more recent version of  GHS Purple Book for some […]

A special thanks go to the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) and the committee members for developing an action-packed program to bring together industry experts, practitioners, and vendors for multiple days at the 2021 Applied Ergonomics Conference. If you’re like me, you miss the live experience of attending sessions, visiting the exposition hall, […]

When COVID-19 hit the world on a larger scale and most of us transitioned to working from home, many people were excited that they “got” to work from the comfort of their home, wearing whatever was comfortable, and shortening each commute to the distance between their bed and their computer. But, a year stuck in […]

Before everyone quickly transitioned to working from home, I already had a height-adjustable desk and external mouse in my house. But that was about it – I only worked from home every now and then. At first, the items I felt I needed most to improve my workstation were a better chair, an external monitor, […]