Ergonomic Assessment
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Ergonomic Assessment
Our team of highly skilled consultants can undertake detailed ergonomic assessments to ensure your environment is a safe and healthy workplace.
Ergonomic Assessments can be conducted remotely or on-site. Ask us about our virtual assessments and how our team can support you whilst sitting at your desk.
Digital advancements in our working practices have created a fantastic opportunity for our team to be more immediately available via audio-visual technologies. This availability supports you and your team taking positive steps toward best practice working arrangements sooner rather than later.
What are Ergonomics?
Ergonomics requires an understanding of the work environment to design and arrange a set-up optimal for human use. This includes safe work in both white and blue-collar environments.
Our ergonomic assessments ensure an appropriate interaction between employees and their workspace. This involves assessing seating arrangements as well as daily behaviours such as how often they stand, the equipment they use (computers, accessories, keyboards and machinery), and their posture throughout the workplace.
Our team applies principles from numerous disciplines such as physiology, biomechanics, anthropometrics, psychology, and industrial design.
What are the Benefits of Ergonomics?
Ergonomic assessments help to identify risks and offer solutions to mitigate workplace injuries.
The benefits of an ergonomic assessment can include:
- Reducing absenteeism
- Improvement in productivity
- Improvement in quality of work
- Improvement in workplace safety
- Improvement in workplace engagement
What are the Risks of Bad Ergonomics?
Ignoring the risks associated with bad ergonomic practices can have a serious impact on your employee’s health and affect the performance of your workplace and its culture.
This may include:
- Neck, back, shoulder and arm pain
- Headaches and fatigue
- Repetitive injury strain and carpal tunnel
- Postural muscle aches and pains
- Decrease in morale and productivity
How Recovery Partners can Assist
Types of Assessments
These assessments optimise employee wellbeing and overall system performance, providing benefits to both the worker and employer. By providing these assessments, you are able to meet with your duty of care to employees by ensuring that work areas are safe and the risk of injury is minimised.
| Type of Assessment | Includes |
|---|---|
| Express Ergonomic Assessment | Basic workstation review and adjustment for an employee. Short report included. |
| Standard Ergonomic Assessment | Workstation review and adjustment for an employee with minor symptomatic presentations. Standard report included. |
| Comprehensive Ergonomic Assessment | Workstation review and adjustment for an employee with a known medical condition. Comprehensive report included. |
| Bulk Assessments | Basic workstation review and adjustment for a group of employees. Short report and office flyers included. |
| Ergonomic Assessment - Remote | Workstation review and adjustment for an employee with minor symptomatic presentations, conducted remotely. Standard report included. |
| Ergonomic Assessment - Home Workstation | Workstation review and adjustment for an employee working from home. Standard report and photographic materials included. |
Bulk Ergonomic Assessments
Bulk ergonomic assessments are evaluations conducted across multiple employees or an entire department to identify and correct ergonomic risks in the workplace. Assessments can be conducted in-person or virtually using photos, video calls or ergonomic self-assessment tools.
Assessments may look like the following:
- 15-20-minute timeslot per person.
- Measurements of chair height from floor, desk height from floor (both seated and standing).
- Education regarding correct position of chair (erm rests, lumbar support, posture).
- Education around mouse/keyboard position, monitor position.
- Education regarding regular posture, vision breaks + benefits of good health.
- Recommendations provided to employer regarding any equipment that would reduce the risk of injury at the workplace/home workstation.
What are the Benefits of Bulk Ergonomic Assessments?
- Decrease the risk of future injury, particularly RSI, carpal tunnel, neck strain and back pain
- Fewer workers’ comp claims and injury-related absences
- Improve overall ergonomic position for increased durability.
- Reduced stiffness and soreness associated with posture.
- Cost Savings – Bulk assessments are often more affordable per person compared to one-on-one services
When to use Bulk Ergonomic Assessments?
- These assessments are ideal for growing teams, new office spaces or onboarding new staff.
- Post-expansion or move to a new office
- Onboarding a large cohort of new employees
- Annual health & safety check-ins
- High rates of discomfort or absenteeism reported within the business
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