Ergonomics Kit for the General Industry contains everything you need to set up or improve your workplace ergonomics process.

Features:

• Provides users with a ready made format for conducting training sessions and allows them to customize the program
• Features a new section showing how ergonomics fits in with other current methods for improving efficiency and quality
• Discusses the effects of a successful ergonomics program on the company's bottom line
• Provides a framework for integrating ergonomics into day-to-day activities in different types of industries
• Reviews the processes of solving problems, introducing ergonomics to your organization, and running the program
• Includes tips on writing a formal plan and samples of different ways to write a plan

Contents

Why

• Good Ergonomics is Good Economics
• How Ergonomics Promotes Efficiency
• Preventing Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs)
• Case examples

How

• Setting Up an Ergonomics Program
• The Workplace Ergonomics Process
• More Guidance on Specific Topics
• Creating Change
• Government Standards and Guidelines

Practical Tools

• Worksheets
• Training Slides and Script

Index

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