Tap your feet with joy! You have an excellent resource to assist your business achieve a high level of ergonomic excellence. Reach out to an ergonomic specialist with Ergobility to find out how implementing a proactive program focused on reducing musculoskeletal injuries and driving down the cost of worker’s compensation costs. There are various strategies to implement around the mitigation of ergonomic related injuries. They are in fact the highest number of injury type and are difficult to capture as they are cumulative. The first step is to ensure a robust injury and illness prevention program implemented in a way that allows for employees to understand the early symptoms of an ergonomic injury. The next step is to ensure there is a soundboard for employee to express ergonomic concerns and escalate issues in a timely manner. Employees want to be heard and know that the company that they pour their soul into care about their wellbeing. The benefit of encouraging employees to report even the slightest of physical issues is it starts the timeline of intervention earlier leading to better recovery results and reduced overall worker compensation costs. The overall disposition of an injury depends greatly on the progression and thus it is imperative that an assessment of the job demands and how to reduce those that exceed a workers capabilities or aggravate a pre-existing condition an employee has. Ergonomic evaluations include interventions that are meant to have impact-full and lasting shielding effects of ergonomic risks employees are subjected to in the office, lab, or industrial space. If you would like a demonstration, request just a single ergonomic assessment of your computer workstation and start there. Once you receive the ergonomic evaluation report, you will then understand the ergonomic risks, the mitigation strategies, and how to further reduce risk through equipment and furniture. Not everyone needs a chair with a multi-tilt mechanism, significant sacral support, or extra long seat pan but a few might and if you catch that early on, you would have just increased the employee's comfort and significantly reduce the chances of an worker's compensation claim. If you want to know more about how you can strategize around ergonomics and offerings of ergonomic assessments within your organization, talk to an ergonomics specialist with Ergobility today. The fact that you are looking into this, is a great first step but don't forget to find out with an initial ergonomic assessment and discover much more.