Opinion
Discover the latest product updates, best-practices in industrial ergonomics, wearable safety technologies and get useful occupational safety tips
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25.11.20
ISO 45001 Migration Period Extended! How Can Data Assist in Compliance?An easy way to determine credibility is to simply look at how a company values safety. Adhering to the new gold standard that ISO 45001 tends to acknowledge shows any customers and the public that employee safety is important to your organisation. Obviously, an invaluable undertaking to possess. Recently, different technologies have begun being implemented […]
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18.11.20
Wearable Tech Reduces Musculoskeletal Injuries by 55%
Being actively safe at work is more effective when risks can be tracked, compared, shared, learning can be adapted into everyday behaviour and workers have the agency to manage their own musculoskeletal wellbeing. Toni-Louise Gianatti explains how wearable tech has been adopted by Travis Perkins Group PLC to provide a new, accepted, and proven method […]
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11.11.20
Rationale for Tech Standards in Manual Handling Assessments
Technology is moving into different industries and areas of our life. Recently, different technologies have begun being implemented to assist and increase safety at the workplace. The use of wearable technology has opened a new era in ergonomics. Risk assessment nowadays can be performed with the use of technology and technical measurements offer the opportunity […]
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28.10.20
Return to Work after COVID19 – Urging Safety Managers to ACT NOW to Prevent Injuries
Workers returning to work after being furloughed are putting their bodies at risk due to no longer being at full working strength. The world is about to see the biggest return to work program ever faced. If not managed, the manual workers body is at high risk of injury. Safety Managers are being urged to consider […]
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21.10.20
The Power of Proprioception – A Vital Tool in Reducing the Risk of Musculoskeletal Disorders in the Workplace
Understanding proprioception can help to interpret how correct movement requires well organised accurate signals from the muscles firing to the brain. These pointers can be easily manipulated simply by becoming more aware of movement behaviour (5). Awareness of correct movement execution redistributes the signals decreasing the likelihood of injury (9). There are numerous approaches around […]
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