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Facility Safety Management Magazine
Read InjuryFree’s latest published article, Sound Ergonomics Prevent Injuries While Handling Heavy, Awkward Materials, as published in the April issue of Facility Safety Management Magazine. Read More ›
Tips for Preventing Low Back Injuries
Most back injuries are rarely the result of single event incidents. They are more typically the culmination of minor, repeated stress over time. Sitting can certainly be considered a low level, repeated stress to the low back. With that said there are great opportunities to prevent these injuries by employing simple strategies… Read More ›
Back from the Conferences…
Our teams have returned from presenting at both the Alaska Governor’s Safety and Health Conference in Anchorage, Alaska and the Applied Ergonomics Conference in San Antonio, Texas. We had a wonderful time meeting ergonomists as well as health and safety… Read More ›
Warehouse Lifting Ergonomic Tips
A warehouse environment provides ample opportunity for incorrect lifting to cause injury to an employee. The very nature of most warehouse layouts – vertically stacked shelves or boxes – means… Read More ›
Safety White Paper: “Ergonomics in the Poultry Industry: A Review of 25 Years of Industry Efforts”
A new white paper published from poultry associations: National Chicken Council, National Turkey Federation and the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association reports the poultry industry’s success in managing the occurrence of MSDs (musculoskeletal disorders) in the workplace. Since 1992, the occurrence of MSDs has fallen… Read More ›
Register Now! NSC Texas Safety Conference & Expo
If you haven’t already registered for the NSC Texas Safety Conference & Expo, don’t forget the advance registration deadline ends Friday, February 12th! When you register, sign up for the InjuryFree presentation, “Ergonomics: Recognizing and Reducing Risk” scheduled for Tuesday,… Read More ›
Team Lifting Can Bear More Weight than One Alone
Even the strongest worker eventually encounters an object or load in the work place which they cannot move safely on their own. Sometimes, these objects require a team of people working together in order to properly displace them. Sometimes two people and a small amount of mechanical assistance will… 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 ›
Barriers to Establishing Ergonomic Standards
One of the stumbling blocks that many people run into when attempting to institute a more ergonomically designed workflow at their place of business is… Read More ›
The Effects of Shift Work
Working in shifts is an industrial and manufacturing concept that has branched out into many other businesses over the past 100 years. Shift work allows a company to maximize its investment in… Read More ›
