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Employee Maintenance: An Effective Safety & Wellness Strategy (ASSE Professional Safety Journal)
Workplace injuries are a burden to businesses and employees in all sectors. Economic and human impacts affect companies as well as employees and their families. On the economic side, for example, $55.3 billion was paid out in… Read More ›
Grays Harbor Paper Unveils Ergonomics Program
A leading manufacturer of environmentally-friendly paper utilizes ergonomics to reduce the risk of employee injury. Read More ›
Workplace Safety: Bio-Physics and the Industrial Athlete (EHS Today)
In the last two decades in particular, workplace safety has come to have many facets and strategies. From safety videos to safety meetings, and from safety training to safety awareness, it is safety education… Read More ›
Risk Reduction Through Early Symptom Recognition (EHS Today)
Overuse injuries, also called repetitive stress injuries (RSIs) or repetitive stress disorders (RSDs) are quite costly to businesses in all sectors. There are economic costs for medical care, lost time, lost productivity and administrative issues. There are also the “human costs” relating to… Read More ›
Keeping Workers Fit For the Job (The Daily World)
In the National Football League, injuries come with the territory. So in order to keep the players in top physical condition and on the field, teams employ professional trainers, physical therapists and state of-the-art fitness equipment. Workers in industrial plants and manufacturing facilities have demanding jobs of their own… Read More ›
Breaking Through the Musculoskeletal Plateau (The Journal of Workers Compensation)
The American manufacturing industry has made significant strides over the past 50 years in the area of worker protection. Whether mandated by government agencies or by economic and human resources drivers, safety programs have… Read More ›
Employee Maintenance Center Case Study, Published by Kimberly-Clark
For the first few years after K-C acquired the Everett mill, workers’ compensation costs held steady. Then, at the end of 2002, the mill tallied it’s annual workers’ comp outlay and the result looked like a computation error: costs had plummeted in just 12 months. Read More ›
Working Pain-Free (OH&S Magazine)
Kimberly-Clark’s Conway, Ark., plant reduced its musculoskeletal incidents by 50 percent following installation of an on-site Employee Maintenance Center (EMC). Improvements in reportable incident rates have… Read More ›