Driving

Give your snowplow drivers a hand up: start the season with ergonomics training

Well, actually, we’d prefer that they get two hands up, when they’re climbing into the cab! No one wants to think about it, but winter IS coming; municipalities and private landscaping companies are already hard at work preparing to take care of the wintery roads. Snowplow drivers are exposed to several strain/sprain injury hazards: – […]
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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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Fall ergo conference

Carrie and Karen will be heading to Montreal in October to present five papers. (“Conference” does not equal “break” for us!) Here’s what we’ll be talking about at the annual ACE conference. (Check out the conference at http://www.ace-ergocanada.ca/index.php?contentid=1054.) The impact of design for average: Despite our understanding that we must design for the “limiting user” […]
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