Ergonomics

Our businesses are literally built on the backs of our workers. Understand employer responsibilities when it comes to back pain at work. Backcare awareness week offers the health and safety [...]

Anna Clark, University of Salford, discusses the work she has been doing on identifying the risks to young people associated with technology use, and its wider implications to the workforce For [...]

Hollie Smith Hollie Smith unpacks her experience in managing ergonomics programmes and gives her top tips for success. In the 22 years Cardinus has been involved with office and laboratory [...]

Jennifer Law and Sarah Lytton tell us about Lockton’s employee wellness programme and how the organisation attempted to encourage and persuade its staff to take part and become ambassadors of the [...]

Managing workplace DSE can be complex and time consuming. In this article we explain what the risks can be, what you can do as a business and considerations which can make the management process [...]

General safety (legislation) clauses across the globe encompass the requirement for an organisation-wide ergonomics programme, says Cardinus’ Jon Abbott. Across the European Union musculoskeletal [...]

A recent systematic review of screen use by children in the British Medical Journal has been followed by comment from The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) suggesting that [...]

In this short guide to ergonomics risk associated with working in bank branches we’ll cover some of the most common ergonomics risks and how to deal with them. Ergonomics deals with the fit [...]

With Baby Boomers exiting the workforce in the near future, how do you cultivate their knowledge and manage the changing workforce when it comes to health. Matt Weber takes a look. According to a [...]

Recently Seattle City Light decided to augment their employee wellness programme by trailing BAX-U posture devices. Keith Osborne and Dr Romina Ghassemi share the results of their trial with us. [...]