Matheson Philosophy on Workplace Safety and Work Injury Evaluation

A checklist helps to identify ergonomic risks and to predict severity. The following is a short compilation of some of the most important qualities that an evaluator should be looking for in an ergonomic checklist:

Matheson has been on Twitter for quite some time now, but we just discovered a very cool new tool that we would love to share with you! It's called Paper.li and is an automatic aggregate of the shared content of select people/organizations that we follow on Twitter and/or Facebook. We have chosen these specific sources to bring you a daily feed of occupational rehabilitation, occupational medicine, workplace safety and ergonomics news stories, events, videos, etc.

With his last post Roy introduced his recent hike down the Grand Canyon and shared some services available while hiking down the South Kaibab Trail. In this post, he shares ten safety lessons he learned from this rigorous hike.

Tonight, after watching a 40 lb, 3 ft long, 10 inch thick block of ice come barreling down my roof and directly hitting the 24 foot extension ladder upon which my husband was standing, almost causing him to fall straight backward, I asked him ever-so-politely:

Now that you know how to determine ergonomic risk factors, read this post to learn the methods recommended for measuring and quantifying these risk factors.