Whether you are looking to open your first small business or are in the process of evaluating the health and safety practices of your existing office, it's essential that you identify and remedy ...

Since 2002, OSHA has sent approximately 440 ergonomic hazard alert letters to employers. According to an April 11 OSHA directive, the agency will be contacting those employers to see how much progress ...

Any practice or situation that occurs in an occupational setting and has the potential to cause bodily or mental harm or poses any other risks to the health of one or more workers constitutes as a ...

Workplace injuries are a significant concern for businesses, leading to downtime, high costs and decreased employee morale. Often, these injuries stem from poor ergonomic design rather than just ...

A report released in September by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) has the unusual title of “OSHA Should Take Steps to Better Identify and Address Ergonomic Hazards at Warehouses and ...

Manually undertaking workplace ergonomic evaluations are time-consuming and hard to scale. Given the simplicity and accuracy of technology to perform the job, it’s easy to understand why paper methods ...

WASHINGTON, DC — The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has unveiled a plan which it says will reduce ergonomic injuries through a combination of industry-targeted guidelines, tough ...

Ergonomics is the study of work. From an OSHA perspective, it is the process of designing the job to fit the employee, rather than forcing the employee’s body to fit the job. This process may include ...

The unseen team member of your control room. For organizations, it’s a matter of health and safety. It is also an issue of efficiency and overall productivity. Regardless of how companies measure the ...

A quality work environment is a collaborative effort to keep workers safe and healthy. In a facility like the Anniston (Ala.) Munitions Center, many factors influence the work environment and can be ...

Washington state fined the company this week for its hazardous work pace, but there’s no federal regulation governing ergonomic injuries because of bad decisions made in the other Washington, ages ago ...

OLYMPIA – A 2003 initiative that repealed the state’s workplace ergonomics rules doesn’t mean that the state can’t protect workers under existing state law, Washington’s Supreme Court has ruled. In an ...