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Presenter: ‘Fit the work to you’ after 200 ergonomics injuries reported
Summary
In a Safety Moments presentation, Mike Stagg urged staff to adjust tools, workstations and tasks to individual bodies after citing 200 ergonomically related injuries in the first half of the year and nearly $500,000 in incurred costs.
Mike Stagg, presenting during a Safety Moments session, told staff the workplace should be adjusted to fit workers’ bodies to reduce repetitive-strain and posture injuries. “We’ve had 200 of these ergonomic type of injuries just in the first half of the year,” Stagg said, and he cited about $500,000 in incurred costs linked to those injuries.
Stagg said roughly three-quarters of strains and sprains the organization recorded were attributable to ergonomic factors such as awkward or static postures, repetition and fatigue. “Seventy-five percent of these strains and sprains are as a direct result of some…
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