Category: Employee Engagement

There are many benefits to implementing an ergonomics process, including productivity increases, improved product quality, and a reduced incidence rate of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). However, one of the largest benefits is often overlooked: employee engagement. To ensure you’re engaging your employees right off the bat, consider implementing these hands-on activities. You’ll have your team ergo-aware… read more

Ergonomics team members play an important role in identifying jobs that pose a high risk for workers developing musculoskeletal disorders and promoting changes to fix them. However, if members aren’t trained to sell their ideas, getting buy-in to implement improvements can be difficult. Studies show that executives may dismiss otherwise good ideas when they don’t… read more

We often share how effective ergonomics processes improve employee engagement, health and safety, business performance and manufacturing productivity, among other benefits.  Our business is built on making a difference in the working population. What we don’t spend time talking about our people on the front line, knee-deep in grit, delivering a hard day of work… read more

If there was one thing that disappointed me about last week’s Applied Ergonomics Conference it was Mother Nature. Plaguing Atlanta with 40-degree temperatures was cruel since the average normally hovers between the high 60s and low 70s. Luckily, the sessions I attended overshadowed the chill in the air. Michelin North America Director of Ergonomics Bobbie… read more

Inside Tesla’s factory in Freemont, California, the ergonomics team is taking the bull by the horns by implementing an aggressive health and safety initiative. Laurie Shelby, Tesla’s Vice President of Environmental, Health, and Safety, stated in a blog post “We’re taking a proactive approach to safety, which means everything from focusing on ergonomics and having… read more

Recently, Humantech surveyed its users of The Humantech System®, an ergonomics management tool for production and manufacturing environments, to identify the trends and benefits of their ergonomics process. Participants were asked to select and rank the value(s) their company had derived from their process. To our surprise, employee engagement ranked first, over values like reduced… read more

If you’re like me you still have gifts on your shopping list, whether they’re for your son, your mother, or your coworker down the hall. Finding the “right” thing can be hard, especially when the stores are flooded with frantic shoppers and the utter mayhem of crying babies from being in the shopping cart a… read more

Is employee engagement the missing ingredient to an effective ergonomics process?  My colleague Jeff Sanford, director and ergonomics engineer, and I teetered on that question while attending last week’s Safety Leadership Conference, sponsored by Penton Media’s EHS Today. In all honesty, we knew the answer was “yes” since Humantech recently conducted a benchmarking study about… read more

Does your team ever complete a great fix, only for it to be forgotten about shortly after? We often see ergonomics teams struggle with how to gain traction and encourage employee engagement. Once your team starts implementing great fixes in the workplace, it’s important to communicate that success. Improving the visibility of your ergonomics initiatives… read more

Operations and Safety don’t always speak the same language, not because Operations isn’t committed to keeping people safe at work or Safety isn’t concerned with meeting operational goals, but rather because each area has its own methods, processes, and measures. This communication gap can increase when ergonomics is added to the mix. Ergonomics is often… read more