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Usernomics can help your company to conduct Ergonomics Assessment and Ergonomics Training.
The Ergonomics DilemmaEmployers are always faced with the tradeoff between efficiency and productivity vs. employee safety and comfort. The good news is that they do not have to be a tradeoff. Rather, good ergonomic assessment and remedial design can also result in improved efficiency and productivity. Employees' time away from work due to injury reduces productivity, awkward equipment and procedures reduces efficiency, and violation of "compliance" requirements can certainly affect the bottom line. Creating an ergonomically effective workplace results in employee safety while increasing efficiency and productivity.
Usernomics can assist your company with ergonomic assessment, workplace design improvements, and staff training. We use quantitative techniques to evaluate the workplace and determine those areas that will most benefit from design and placement changes. Once the critical ergonomic hot spots have been identified and evaluated, we can re-design the problem areas to maximize the ergonomic impact. Finally, we can train your staff to self-monitor and regulate their ergonomic environment. The objective is to meet compliance requirements while increasing safety, efficiency, and productivity.
We apply a rigorous and systematic approach to ergonomic assessment, design, and training. Our assessment and design culminates in empirical testing to ensure that all recommendations result in maximizing safety, efficiency, productivity, and compliance. Our Ergonomics Design is distinguished by our additional expertise in user interface design, instructional design, and usability testing.
It is important to note that Usernomics sells no ergonomic products and takes an independent, empirical approach that emphasizes biometrics, ergonomics, and usability.
Usernomics' Ergonomics Design staff consists of Engineering Psychologists, Human Factors Specialists, and Instructional Psychologists. Each discipline contributes to the ergonomic assessment, design, and training process. This multi-discipline approach permits us to view ergonomics in each of its component parts. The result is greater assurance that your workplace will meet regulatory requirements while increasing safety, efficiency, and productivity.
Workplace ergonomics is another area that is not often associated with user-centered design. That concept is usually applied to product design. However, workplace ergonomics may be limited to focusing on the selection and placement of fixtures, such as office furniture and workstations, rather than focusing on the end-user. A well designed workplace is one that considers all aspects of the users environment so that it "fits the user like a glove." We apply a user-centered approach to workplace ergonomics to ensure that the users' biometric, physiologic, and ergonomic needs are achieved in the users' work environment - taken as a whole.
We also specialize in Usability Testing to ensure that your workplace meets the ergonomic expectations for the end-user. Our usability testing takes the guesswork out of the recommendations and design.
We are happy to apply our expertise to varying environments, including the: office, manufacturing floor, warehouse, and vehicle cabins.
Please contact us if you would like further information or wish to discuss our consulting services.