Ergonomics - Don't be a pian in the neck!

First of all, my apologies for my lack of blogging lately...I will be more consistent.

Yesterday, one of my associates, Tim Longley from e-Office Innovations, gave a great presentation on ergonomics. If you have employees that spend most of their day sitting behind a computer, you have a serious exposure to workers compensation issues. Here's why:

• 50% of all workers compensation claims in the United States come from computer-related injuries. Does that scare you? It should. Especially with more and more workers being able to do their jobs from home on laptops, this statistic may even go up.
  
• Employees who are in pain from sitting behind a desk improperly are not as efficient as you would hope. Productivity goes down when people are hurt and can't work to their optimum output. You may say, "They don't act like their hurting." No, but you can imagine with the amount of repetitive strain, i.e. typing sitting, scrolling, etc., that they may be damaging themselves and not even know it.
• You may be required by some governmental agency to get your act together or else. That can be very costly.

Look - the bottom line is that you want your employees to be safe and injury free. You want them to produce at their best capability and have fun at work. You also don't want to pay exorbinent workers compensation premiums. You need to develop a game plan for ergonomics.

If you need help, please feel free to contact Tim Longley at 206-842-4840 or visit his web site by clicking here.

Dan

P.S. Next week, my teleconference will feature Jon Newman from Agility Recovery Solutions. You will learn strategies to stay in business after a disaster hits. This call may just save your business! To register, click here now.