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When is an office work station not an office work station? When we think of office ergonomics, large rows of cubicles in office buildings usually come to mind. But data entry happens in healthcare locations and so do awkward postures. This presentation will explore the challenges encountered by the University of California San Diego Health Ergonomics Team and the collaborative solutions created to keep healthcare providers safe.
This session provides an overview of basic ergonomic concepts and methods that can be used to adjust mobile and home office workstations. This includes a review of ergonomic concepts, furniture use, and equipment and tools that can be used to properly set up the workstation. The emphasis is on enabling session participants to independently assess their workspace and what resources are needed to make adjustments if needed. This session would also be appropriate for people with responsibility for addressing ergonomic issues for employees that are mobile workers or work from a home office.
Peter Gin
Ergonomist
So Cal Gas
Stacy Rozell
Safety and Environment Specialist
So Cal Edison
Tim Pottorff
Principal and Owner
QP3 ErgoSystems LLC
Human and Organizational Performance (HOP) is a risk-based operating philosophy that recognizes that error is part of the human condition and that employee actions and their likelihood of success is greatly influenced by organizational processes and systems. HOP is a key part of the renaissance underway in H&S and is a critical component of fatal and serious incident prevention. HOP focuses on enhancing organizational processes and systems to better recognize and address risk through an understanding of the human element. Unfortunately, ergonomics and human factors professionals have not always been included and actively engaged in their company's HOP deployment and integration efforts despite having unique, critical expertise in this area. This session will introduce several core concepts and principles of HOP, discuss how and why companies have embarked on their HOP journeys, and challenge the ergonomics and human factors communities to become more involved in HOP.
Innovative thinkers in workplace safety are increasingly turning to technology to help alleviate the risks of injury, chronic pain, and fatigue, all of which result in major costs. In fact, research by PwC has predicted that nationwide investment in workplace safety technology could drive an increase of up to $15.7 trillion in economic value by 2030, and employers across industries are investing in new solutions, including:
With the right set of tools and a desire to provide whole-person safety and wellness for workers, employers can alleviate the cost burden from injuries and establish a positive outlook for the future. Join us for a talk with Kevin Lombardo, CEO of DORN Companies, and other leaders in workers’ comp and injury prevention technology as we explore new technologies that will help create a safer future for workers across the nation.
Kevin Lombardo
President and CEO
DORN Companies
Lisa Brooks
Vice President
ORCHSE Strategies, LLC
Deploying a two-fold approach, Honda of Canada Mfg.’s top-level management and associates working in production are engaged and motivated to act as leaders for safety. HCM has been able to achieve significant risk reduction and a cultural shift. HCM is effectively developing the next generation of leaders with Safety and Ergonomics ingrained as part of the culture. Join us for this overview of the HCM approach and how you can apply the approach to your own business.
Building a successful ergonomics program can be very daunting. Sustaining that success over time can be even more daunting. This dynamic session focuses on both understanding the journey for building a successfully integrated process and sustaining that success long term. We will cover the maturity levels of developing processes and where your program fits. We will discuss who your stakeholders are, both internal and external, and what they must bring to the table that will help drive initial and continued success. You will also learn why metrics are critical to your process’s success, how leading and lagging metrics are the key to beginning and supporting the process, and where to find them. You will also learn about integrating health and wellbeing initiatives into your ergonomics process to enhance and drive employee engagement and Total Worker Health (TWH). Finally, you will see how this all comes together through case studies using the principles learned earlier to achieve success at City Light and yours.
Dave Catallo
Manufacturing Safety Leader
Honda of Canada
Keith Osborne
Ergonomist
Seattle City Light
The Logi Ergo Lab is a human-centered and science-driven approach to designing, developing, and reinventing tools that help people feel better at work. Our unrelenting mission is to make the future of work more people-friendly through proven ergonomics. It all starts with understanding the human body and all the ways work stresses, strains, and generally bends us out of shape. We study people of all genders, shapes, and statures to make sure we’re creating inclusive ergonomic solutions. The result are products and solutions are created with criteria set out by leading ergonomists that improve posture, lowering muscle strain, and increasing comfort.
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The path to wellness, although based on good intentions, has not delivered desired results. Chronic disease continues to escalate, and the associated health costs are not only financial.
Stress is the number one factor contributing to a work population that is physically and emotionally unhealthy. The journey of this Haworth-sponsored project lasted over two years with research from more than 100 corporate leaders and experts. The result of this work is a 2018 book "The Healthy Workplace Nudge" co-authored by Dr. Mike O'Neill.
This presentation is highly interactive and engages participants in dialogue on how to identify and apply ergonomic design "nudges" to prompt people to engage in healthier work behaviors - and move to a healthier organization - while also supporting the business bottom-line.
Dr. Mike O'Neill
Director, Global Workplace Research and Workplace Strategy
Haworth, Inc.
Ergonomics is often associated with just product features, like comfy chairs or funky keyboards. Usually where products are being used gets overlooked. Does having a window in your office lower headaches? Does increasing the temperature improve productivity? Does having access to daylight at work improve sleep at the home?
Ergonomics often stresses on the micro-environments of the employees, but a major influence on our performance and well-being has to do with the environments we occupy on a daily basis.
Danny Nou demonstrates the cognitive and emotional impacts of the spaces we occupy and the products we use. Danny explains how ergonomists can quantify the financial impacts of environmental and product changes in the workplace.
Good ergonomic design must focus on how someone actually uses something, where it is being used, and who the user is. Only then can we design products that are easier to use, more satisfying, and create ultimately better experiences.
Danny Nou
Human Factors Researcher
Facebook
COVID-19 brought with it a workplace sea change. With tens of millions of workers now working from home and discovering its advantages, and disadvantages, this line-up of experts provides a glimpse into the future and offers insights on how changes to work, workplace technologies, and workforces will affect the design of offices, and home offices, in 2020 and beyond.
Each presenter shares what their experiences have taught them about what direction that future office design will take, what the ergonomic issues will be, and what solutions may be most successful.
You will learn about the changing nature of office technologies, how office design itself is changing to promote more active working, how the content of office work is changing, and the implications of the pandemic experience for the future development of office and home office ergonomics.
Jonathan Puleio, MS CPE
Global Vice President
Humanscale Consulting
Linda Miller, CCPE, OTD, OT Reg(AB)
President and Certified Occupational Therapist/Ergonomist
EWI Works
David Damico, MA CPE
Vice President, Senior Ergonomics Consultant
Marsh Risk Consulting
Kensington wants to help you get better acquainted with the ever changing landscape of today's workplace environment.
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The Ergonomyx Smart Sit-and-Stand Desk and Smart Under-the-Desk Bike connect to an integrated mobile application making it easier than ever to Sit. Stand. Move. Ergonomyx’s Smart Sit-and-Stand Desk is currently on sale for $336 USD and the Smart Under-the-Desk Bike is on sale for $241 USD.
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Join host Cority and experts in ergonomic software data management – Rachel Leach of bp, Shari Arribere of VMware and Martha Parker of Texas A&M Ergo Center. Organizations around the world are grappling with how to manage employee health in the evolving workplace. We are quickly moving toward a reality where alternative work environments are common and accepted.
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