“Active” workstations, such as treadmill desks, have become popular recently, especially since the emergence of “sitting disease”. The negative effects associated with prolonged sitting are pretty well established, increasing risk of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer. Because people hear that sitting is “bad” they automatically think that having an active workstation, i.e.
Using a chainsaw is not part of my day job but recently became of part of my “weekend job”.
Last week I presented the first 5 reasons of my Top 10 list for why ergonomics (and lean) programs failure. Here are the next five:
“We started off well but things have fallen by the wayside”. “Employees were trained, they were enthusiastic and then things just started slipping away…” The previous two statements are ones I’ve heard from companies who wanted to do ergonomics that then proceeded to get a program together and implemented who currently find themselves with a program “in name only”. Common reasons given for demise of the program were that other priorities came up that took precedence or people just got tired of doing it. There can be numerous reasons given for program failure but with a closer look can b
Last week ErgoWeb published an article title “Stretching and Ergonomics”. Although the article was written in 2004 I believe the key points cited in the article are still very true today, notably:
