I wanted to share with you a website that I think will be a great resource to you, especially if you are searching for anything related to health, safety and environmental topics. The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) unveiled a new ‘Safety, Health and Environmental Body of Knowledge’ (BOK) tool at its recent Leadership Conference for ASSE members.
“Ergonomics doesn’t work.” “Ergonomic changes didn’t solve the problem—it continues just the same.” “Ergonomics just frustrates me—it just doesn’t seem to produce the type of changes (benefit) I think it should.” Those of words I’ve heard from clients who have tried ergonomics and obviously, have not had good results. I know more people who are frustrated with ergonomics or don’t put much stock into ergonomics after seeing little or no benefit from implementing “ergonomic changes”. Have you ever heard or said those words? If so, keep reading. I’d like to address what I see are the to
In this blog series I’ve been focusing on ergonomic assessments. The first one dealt with the 5 components of an assessment. The second dealt with the type of questions to ask for the gathering background information and physical ergonomics. In this blog I want to provide some examples that relate to understanding and examining the impact of the mind and the organization.
Asking the right questions and getting the correct answers are necessary in order to do a thorough ergonomic assessment. In my previous blog I laid out the 5 components of an ergonomic assessment. Let’s do a brief overview of the type of questions to ask in the first and second components.
One of the things I frequently do as a consultant for my clients are ergonomic assessments because of this I often get asked about what an ergonomic assessment is and what does it involve? Well, I hope to answer this question and some others about ergo assessments in this blog series. Of course, ergo assessments can vary as what I look at and analyze depends on what it is I’m specifically assessing but the nuts and bolts of an assessment are the same.
Basic components of an assessment
