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23 Jun, 23

best practices, Design, Ergo at home, marketing, News, tools

An ergonomic ice cream scoop: Optimal postures for the holiday weekend

If you plan to scoop ice cream for an endless line of hungry humans this holiday weekend, your wrists will be screaming for attention. This article includes some tips, and a review of a new scooping tool, said to improve scooping posture. Before you begin scooping, a few tips: Everyone has a favourite ice cream […]

Design, Manual handling, marketing, News, tools

Product review: Snow shovels

As ergonomists, we’re especially curious about all those products that are marketed as “ergonomically designed”. We recently bought two “ergo” snow shovels, and Kirsten volunteered to rate them, in comparison with a traditional shovel. You might see her review on our Linked in page and on our Facebook page. But if you’d rather read about it, then […]

31 May, 21

best practices, Design, Ergo at home, marketing, News, techniques

Is a garden kneeler “ergonomic”?

Most ergonomists love to play with “ergo” toys, and Josie is a gardener, so she volunteered to trial this gardening tool, found here on amazon.ca. The “garden kneeler” is a folding device with a cushioned top, designed to make gardening more comfortable. Josie typically sits, kneels, or squats along the edge of the garden bed, […]

09 Nov, 20

best practices, Design, Ergo at home, leisure, marketing, News, sports, techniques, tools

An ergonomist is “always on”

Just as a dentist notices a turned incisor, and a mechanic’s ear perks up like a border collie’s at the sound of a bad bearing, ergonomists have trouble shutting down the “ergonomics filter” on their views of the world. In fact, we’ve created a whole series of social media posts about ergonomics “in real life”, […]

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An ergonomic ice cream scoop: Optimal postures for the holiday weekend

Product review: Snow shovels

Is a garden kneeler “ergonomic”?

An ergonomist is “always on”

What is ergonomics?

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