Design

10 Jul, 17

150 years of Ergonomics

In honour of Canada’s sesquicentennial, our local newspaper, “The Ayr News” published a copy of the newspaper that they had published in 1867. I was lazily reading through it on a Saturday morning when I came across the ad shown above. I had spent the previous few work days creating a presentation of “before” and […]
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20 Mar, 17

Check it out – Ergonomics and Cashiers

Do you ever worry about the demands of the cashier who has to handle every item that you eat in a week? We do. And not just because we’ve been hired to! So do academics, apparently. Researchers from the Universities of Waterloo, Laurentian, and Arizona State recently published a paper in the International Journal of Industrial […]
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14 Nov, 16

In the loop about surgical loupes

e-news from Josie Blake… We recently attended the ACE 2016 conference in Niagara Falls. Topics ranged from specific research on twisting the back, to sit-stand workstations, to training in the healthcare field. One presentation on dental professionals got me thinking about my recent trip to the dentist, and made me wish I had another appointment soon, […]
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16 Oct, 16

Hollywood takes on ergonomics!

Like many of you, I recently went to see a movie about human factors. You read that first sentence twice didn’t you? You may not have even heard the phrase while you were engaged with the story, but the words “human factors” were actually uttered, read straight from the script. The movie “Sully” was about […]
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Brick Layer
11 Jul, 16

How an ergonomist can save you money

I suspect that few things are more frustrating to an engineer than fielding complaints from workers on a brand new line. An engineer or project manager who has just spent months attending to the many, many, many details of a new project may not be receptive to the type of “constructive” feedback that workers have to […]
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