Statistics show that around 80% of us will experience back pain at some stage in our lives. In this day and age a number of industries such as transport, sales representing, and mobile services require workers to be on the road for extended periods of time during their work day. Spending long hours driving in …
Read more »The latest research from Safe Work Australia states that 127 355 serious worker’s compensation claims were lodged in 2010-2011. This equates to approximately 12 claims per 1000 employees (Safe Work Australia, 2013). Often, employees think that they will not be included in these statistics, however, in our industry (injury management) we see multiple injured workers …
Read more »Ergonomics in the workplace refers to the way in which we interact with our surrounding environment including how we complete work tasks. Simply put, ergonomics in the workplace is the interaction of a worker and their equipment and job. The focus of ergonomics in the workplace is to find the ‘best fit’ between the worker …
Read more »I recently completed an ergonomic training session at a large business centre on the Sunshine Coast. I felt I had a good understanding of what is involved in ergonomics and how an appropriate ergonomic set up should look like. But for me, this made me think so to speak and provided me with a great …
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