Articles

  • NSC: Demonstrating the Business Value of Ergonomics

    EHS Today Magazine - 10/7/10
    This article summarizes a presentation made by Humantech's Deepesh Desai at the 2010 National Safety Congress and Expo. He outlines key elements of successful ergonomics programs.

  • Is the One-on-One Office Assessment Dead?

    EHS Today Magazine - 10/1/10
    In this article, James Mallon explains that, while there is sometimes a need for individual office ergonomic assessments, technology can help quickly prioritize issues and educate employees.

  • Ergonomics - What's Real What's Not

    EHS Today Magazine - 1/1/10
    EHS professionals often wrestle with defining ergonomics and how it fits into occupational health and safety. This article examines the definition of ergonomics and discusses how the success of an ergonomics program lies in integrating ergonomics as a continuous improvement process where health and safety, engineering and product design all contribute to the activity and share in the benefit.

  • A Change in the Air

    EHS Today Magazine - 10/1/09
    James Mallon's column asserts now is the time for EHS professionals to rejuvenate and regain lost ground in their health and safety processes. The article examines the use of ergonomics standards verses positioning an ergonomics programs as a tangible business tool.

  • Good Ergonomics is Good Economics

    EHS Today Magazine - 7/21/09
    This article highlights the challenges that EHS professionals face as the economy rebounds. There is also an action plan for the next few months to ensure that your ergonomics process is ready for takeoff once the economy begins to recover.

  • Managing Workplace Ergonomics: Clarification & Simplification

    Ergonomics Branch of ASSE Newsletter - 2/27/09
    This article sets out to clarify that workplace ergonomics is an engineering discipline and a means for improving human performance in time, quality and safety. It is not exclusively a tool for preventing injury and it's most effective when focused on risk and managed as an improvement process.

  • Let's Get Physical: How to Modify your Tools to Prevent Pain at the Bench

    The Scientist - 1/31/09
    Humantech ergonomist, Blake McGowan, offers some advice and ergonomic solutions for common laboratory procedures.

  • Using Continuous Improvement Events in an Ergo Program

    Professional Safety Magazine - 7/8/08
    Underestimated, underused, and untapped is the best way to describe the power of Continuous improvement events in the field of ergonomics. These events can accelerate implementation and achieve quick and sustainable results.

  • Room to Move

    Industrial Engineer Magazine - 6/8/08
    Explore three critical success factors for an ergonomics initiative including integration with continuous improvement, risk management, and designing for ergonomics.

  • Ergonomics in Changing Times: What’s Happening? What Should You Be Doing?

    Business and Legal Report’s OSHA Compliance Advisor - 5/26/08
    The imperative to preserve resources, retain aging employees, and remain competitive is stronger than ever these days. This Compliance Report explains why ergonomics makes even more sense in a less-robust economy.

  • Surviving Work: A Guide to Ergonomics at the Office and in the Field

    Buildings Magazine - 2/12/08
    With basic knowledge about risky work behaviors and ergonomic workstation design, facilities professionals can help both computer-bound tenants/occupants and their on-the-job employees avoid work-related injuries.

  • Revitalizing Your Ergonomics Program

    Occupational Health & Safety - 1/15/08
    C-Level Ergonomics - Determining the strengths and weaknesses of your ergonomics program.

  • A Safer Way to Manufacture

    IndustryWeek Online - 9/5/07
    Goodyear Tire & Rubber sees 50% drop in injury rates with new program introduced by Humantech.

  • Driving Continuous Improvement in Plant Safety

    Occupational Hazards - 8/1/07
    Adopting a 30-Inch View of people and performance can lead to dramatic reductions in injury rates and significant gains in profitability, while creating a culture of respectful employee engagement.

  • ASSE - Ergonomics at Goodyear

    Occupational Hazards - 7/10/07
    After eliminating more than 3,600 ergonomic risks at its facilities, Akron, Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has learned some valuable lessons. Among those lessons, in the words of consultant Walter Rostykus, CSP, CIH, CPE, vice president of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Humantech Inc., "We found that about 80 percent of the [ergonomic] problems could be solved with very low-cost, simple solutions."