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24 Nov, 17

Ergo at home, Industrial, PPE, Shopping

How to pick winter treads…for your feet

A November 15th webinar by Dr. Tilak Dutta of the University Health Network reviewed winter footwear characteristics, and how treads are tested. He even identified specific footwear with better slip resistance…more on that later. The method for testing footwear’s slip resistance is fascinating. They use a room with an ice floor. The entire room tilts! […]

06 Nov, 17

News, anthropometry, Design, Industrial, Manual handling, PPE, tools, training

How are you affected by poor ergo design?

If workplaces were designed ergonomically, there would be fewer injuries, people would be more productive, and the quality of their work would be better. Don’t believe me? I challenged myself to come up with an everyday example of poor ergonomic design, for each of the design guidelines in our course. Please read the list….haven’t you […]

18 Oct, 17

injury, Manual handling

MMH conference – injury reduction stats!

On October 2, 2017, the Taylor’d Ergo team attended the CRE-MSD “Manual Materials Handling and Prevention of Musculoskeletal Disorders: Making it Work!” one-day conference in Mississauga, Ontario. The day started off with a short review on a bit of the history of manual material handling (MMH) injuries in workplaces and a reminder to not forget […]

08 Sep, 17

legislation, Design, Office Ergo

Why does the occupant matter in green building design? (hint: ergo)

by Josie Blake Our recent ACE conference was held at The Banff Centre, in gorgeous, “Green certified” buildings (we were in this one: https://www.banffcentre.ca/articles/leed%C2%AE-gold%C2%A0achieved-kinnear-centre-creativity-innovation), which were alarmingly close to some of the wildfires (apparently only 6 miles!) The conference had a session dedicated to presentations on sustainable development, and one presentation that intrigued me was […]

27 Jul, 17

News, Ergo at home, Industrial, Manual handling, training

Packing, moving, and dodging back pain

Our office is moving soon (stay tuned for a new address), and so we’ve launched a buzz of box-stuffing. Moving is heavy work – every file, training prop, and piece of equipment has to be boxed, labeled and stacked. Furniture has to be disassembled. Someone has to load and unload a truck, and then we […]

10 Jul, 17

News, best practices, Design, Ergo at home

150 years of Ergonomics

In honour of Canada’s sesquicentennial, our local newspaper, “The Ayr News” published a copy of the newspaper that they had published in 1867. I was lazily reading through it on a Saturday morning when I came across the ad shown above. I had spent the previous few work days creating a presentation of “before” and […]

News, Employment, ergo program

Fanshawe College Advanced Ergo Program’s first set of grads

At the end of April, the first batch of Fanshawe College’s “Advanced Ergonomic Studies” program graduated, and were placed with a variety of hosts, as interns, typically under the mentorship of an experienced ergonomist. Remarkably, the internships are unpaid, so over 20 companies benefited from this program. The interns all have undergraduate degrees, in addition […]

29 May, 17

News, best practices, ergo program, Office Ergo

Does your office ergo assessment process work?

We know ours does. How? We follow up. Our ergo assessment process starts AND ends with a comfort survey, which we score. We therefore have quantitative baseline measures of discomfort, by body part, which we can cross-reference to ensure that the changes that we made improved the situation. There are many comfort surveys available, so […]

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How to pick winter treads…for your feet

How are you affected by poor ergo design?

MMH conference – injury reduction stats!

Why does the occupant matter in green building design? (hint: ergo)

Packing, moving, and dodging back pain

150 years of Ergonomics

Fanshawe College Advanced Ergo Program’s first set of grads

Does your office ergo assessment process work?

What is ergonomics?

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