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Introduction

Ergonomics is vital in promoting efficiency and safety in an organization.

It involves designing workplaces to fit the employees.

Ergonomics work in ensuring employees are comfortable in their workplaces.

It also involves optimizing products for human use

It incorporates the capabilities and limitations of the employees

It removes the dangers that lead to musculoskeletal injuries

 

Ergonomics Safety is a Process for Protecting Workers in their job environment. Managers are in charge of giving a protected and stimulating work environment for their employees. In the work environment, the number and seriousness of Material Safety Data Sheets coming about because of physical overexertion, and their related expenses, can be generously decreased by applying ergonomic standards (Elliott, 2016). It is an applied science that entails planning and organizing the resources individuals use in their work with the goal that workers and the resources interconnect most effectively and securely

 

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Importance of Ergonomics

Guarantees the safety of employees

Used to identify hazards and prevent them before they happen

Results in financial benefits through savings derived from workplace safety

Increased productivity

Boosts the employee morale.

Employee retention

 

When workplace safety is valued, it’s practically implicit, and the organization benefits greatly from it. Work safety is incorporated in the daily work undertakings and turns out to be a piece of the corporate activities (Son, Albertync & Gerber, 2017). Employees feel more comfortable working in a safe environment. Ergonomics additionally should be a valued asset of the organization since it results in increased productivity hence higher profitability. It should be incorporated into the organization’s culture and be coordinated into the daily routine of the organization.

 

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Ergonomics Hazards at the Workplace

Repetitive movements

Awkward/Prolonged Postures

Excessive Force

Arm/Hand Segmental Vibrations through extended use of vibratory tools

Mechanical Contact Stressors

 

At the point when employees need to regulate their bodies to carry out a task, after some time there’s a high likelihood for building up a Cumulative Trauma Disorder. CTD, as characterized by OSHA, is a musculoskeletal disorder that includes harm to the ligaments, ligament sheaths, and the related bones, it also involves the muscles and nerves of other body parts like the shoulders, hands, and elbows neck, back among other parts (Mochimaru, 2017).

Ergonomics is the exploration of enhancing working environment conditions and occupation requests to the abilities of the workers. Its objective is fitting the work activity to the employee, not the employee to the activity to aid in avoiding CTD’s. These viable “fits” result in increased efficiency, reduced injury risks and also improved employee satisfaction.

 

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Keys to Sustainable Safety and Ergonomics

Presentation of Ergonomics in a strategic manner

Build up a Sound Organizational Framework for Ergonomics

Try not to overlook the Need to Address Operational Pain Points

Utilize an Interactive Process to Identify Emerging Needs and Validate Priorities

Take a stab at Continuous Improvement

 

A sad fact for some wellbeing and ergonomics experts is that vast numbers of their drives eventually turn into the casualties of their prosperity. When they achieve the organization’s underlying goals, interests in ergonomics and other wellbeing arrangements either dissipate or are reallocated somewhere else (Son, Albertync & Gerber, 2017). While these results might disappoint, they regularly originate from strategic methodologies concentrated on steady enhancements. Numerous such activities are intended to fulfill government or state prerequisites, (for example, OSHA) or to lessen injuries leading to compensation for the employees. Once immediate issues are tended to, the projects aren’t kept up or extended.

 

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Common Farm Tasks that cause Ergonomic Injuries

Numerous farming tasks include stooped stances and tough work that involves lifting, kneeling and bending. The most severe dangers originate from ordinary duties on the farm, including:

Harvesting

Handling heavy vegetable produce

Weeding in fields and plant nurseries

Preparing the farm for planting

 

Farm workers often suffer from spinal pains and torments in the shoulders, arms, and hands more than some other medical issues. A good percentage of the injuries that make them miss work are sprains and strains as well as back pains (Elliott, 2016). These are additionally the most widely recognized reasons for disability in the employees. However, the implementation of ergonomics will essentially lessen exhaustion and strain (Mao, Jia, Zhang, Zhao, Chen & Zhang, 2015).

 

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Fundamental Ergonomic Principles

Maintain a neutral posture while working

Always work in the power/ comfort zone

Ensure there is movement and stretching

Avoid use of excessive force and

Avoid repetitive motion where possible

 

Ergonomics doesn’t need to be as troublesome or a muddled procedure. The ergonomic standards are for the most part common sense practices – it’s the average, everyday utilization of these rules that are difficult for some organizations (Mochimaru, 2017).

By building up “ergo eyes” and clinging to these essential ergonomic standards, one can enable their organization to distinguish hazard factors that in many cases go unnoticed, measure that danger with a target ergonomic assessment and actualize control measures to decrease/expel ergonomic hazard factors (Heyde, 2014).

 

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Strategies for Improving the Safety of the Employees

Create a plan to promote workplace health and safety.

Regularly check/inspect work

Proper training of employees

Regular talks with the employees

Investigate incidents

Maintain records.

Make safety a crucial part of your business

 

The Occupational Health and Safety Regulation necessitates that every single small venture has an occupational health and safety program. A working environment health and safety program is a procedure for dealing with the counteractive action of business-related injuries and ailments in the work environment (Son, Albertync & Gerber, 2017). Every entrepreneur has an obligation to their workers to guarantee work environment safety.

 

The extent of the health and safety program relies upon the measure of the business and the possible dangers at the specific working environment. For the most part, an independent venture can express its health and safety approach and portray its program in a couple of pages.

 

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Injury Prevention Mechanisms in the Farm

Take frequent breaks to stretch and rest hands

Use two hands to lift rather than one, even with light objects and tasks

Avoid jerky movements when lifting objects

Avoid using a body part as impact devices

Always observe neutral positions

 

Preventing injuries in a workplace is more effective and less cost involving as compared to fixing the injuries. Most of the farm injuries and fatalities can be avoided by following safety practices (Mao, Jia, Zhang, Zhao, Chen & Zhang, 2015). Farm practices have numerous hazards that can affect the job performance of employees. Adhering to the safety guidelines goes a long way in enhancing farm safety.

 

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Safety Recommendations for the Management

Provide the required safety support

Involve workers in the ergonomic assessments.

Provide proper training

Encourage Early Reporting of MSD Symptoms

Implement Solutions to Control Hazards

Evaluate the Progress

 

Employers are obligated to ensure that the workers have a safe working environment. The number and seriousness of MSDs coming about because of physical overexertion, and their related expenses, can be considerably decreased by applying ergonomic standards (Elliott, 2016).

Actualizing an ergonomic procedure is viable in diminishing the danger of creating MSDs in high-hazard enterprises.

 

Slide 10

Conclusion

Ergonomics Safety is paramount to any organization

Employers have a role to play in enforcing Ergonomics Safety in their organizations

Employees perform better when their safety is guaranteed.

Preventing injuries is more economical than fixing the damage caused by the injuries.

Ergonomics Safety should be implemented appropriately to bear results.

 

The objective of ergonomics is to lessen the exposure to work dangers. A work hazard is characterized as a physical factor inside the workplace that can hurt your body. Ergonomic risks incorporate working in clumsy or awkward stances and utilizing excessive force or high redundancy in performing tasks (Mochimaru, 2017). Ergonomics centers on changing the work condition, altering an errand by using ergonomically friendly tools or utilizing unique work strategies to enhance productivity and to lessen the danger of distress or damage.

 

References

Elliott, J. (2016). Safety I and safety II: The past and future of safety management. Ergonomics,59(6), 859-860. doi:10.1080/00140139.2015.1093290

Son, G. R., Albertync, R., & Gerber, C. (2017). Determining the Importance of Coaching Methods in Workplace Health and Safety. Journal of Ergonomics,07(06). doi:10.4172/2165-7556.1000222

Mochimaru, M. (2017). Keynote 2　Advanced Topic on Ergonomics – Service Design. The Japanese Journal of Ergonomics The Japanese Journal of Ergonomics,53(Supplement1). doi:10.5100/jje.53.s8

Heyde, A. V. (2014). Counterproductive Work Behaviour in a Simulated Production Context: An Exploratory Study with Personality Traits As Predictors of Safety-Related Rule Violations. Journal of Ergonomics,04(02). doi:10.4172/2165-7556.1000130

Mao, X., Jia, P., Zhang, L., Zhao, P., Chen, Y., & Zhang, M. (2015). An Evaluation of the Effects of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety Practices: A Systematic Review. Plos One,10(6). doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0129948

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