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ERGONOMICS
- Ergonomics
- Consultation
- Training
- Facility Mapping
The National Safety Council estimates that for every $1 spent on direct workers compensation costs, there are $4 to $10 spent on indirect costs. We provide a variety of ergonomics services to help you reduce these costs.
Ergonomics
Ergonomics in itself is a method of assessing potential or current problems and creating solutions. Whether your problems are with productivity, injuries, design or quality we will assist you in finding the solution that is right for you. When ergonomic changes and initiatives are implemented as part of the business plan, it has been shown to return $3 for every $1 spent. If you are in the planning stages of a new start-up; redesigning a current product; or working on improving existing facilities; then an ergonomic consultation is right for you.
Our clients have realized:
- Increased Savings
- Increased Quality Improvement
- Increased Sales
- Increased Company Morale
- Increased Productivity
- Increased Early Reporting of Injuries
- Decreased Waste and Scrap Rates
- Decreased Workers Compensation Costs
- Decreased Musculoskeletal Injuries
- Decreased Injury Severity Rates
- Decreased Absenteeism
- Decreased Lost Work Time
There is no "One Size Fits All' program for effective ergonomics. Our approach is adapted to the nature of your company, your business, your employees, your customers, and your products and work processes.
Whether you are reactive and responding to problem areas or you are proactive and anticipating potential problem areas, we will tailor the interventions and programs to fit your needs.
Consulting
Our consultation projects deliver to you a clearly written, dynamic report with objective documentation that is supported by proven, researched models and pictorial or video documentation. Vendor information can be included to make understanding and finding the products you need, easier. The information is reviewed in a working meeting (many times in the work area), with all who will be involved in the process, so the findings are clear to all involved and implementation is simplified. This process allows for feedback as to the feasibility of implementation by a number of different individuals with diverse backgrounds. This also serves as a planning time to meet your short and long term planning activity goals.
We adhere to the following guiding principles to provide services that are proactive, affordable and sustainable.
- Management commitment to the initiative and to the KYEL Group Inc. partnership standards.
- Employees are involved in all stages.
- Training is included for all those involved.
- Hazard Information and Reporting
- Evaluation and Process Management is necessary to ensure that the program is working correctly.
- Process: We will work with you to ensure the ergonomic recommendations fit seamlessly into any process initiatives you are currently utilizing or wish to use. (5S, VPP, Six Sigma: Green and Black Belt projects, and Kaizen).
Ergonomic Training
Our ergonomic training programs are structured in a way that gives you the flexibility and comfort to choose what you want to have presented. There are a variety of materials available for presentation. It is best to contact us and inquire about what might be best for you.
- Office and Industrial Applications
- Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Levels
- Engineering Applications
- Musculoskeletal Link
- Job Hazard Analysis
- Cost Justification
Our experts will work with you to develop, implement and sustain a new or modify an existing ergonomic process. All of our training programs include reproducible handouts.
Facility Mapping
- Do you have an area of your plant that has injuries but you are not able to narrow down which activities are causing the problems?
- Do you have injuries but there is no apparent pattern to where and why you are having them?
- Do you have production issues that you are unable to correct?
This method is a way to determine your course of action to begin ridding your facility of these problems. This is a systematic method used to begin the process of identifying problem areas. Modeling is utilized to lay out a hierarchy of risk or utilized as a trend analysis. This method should be utilized in the beginning of your safety, ergonomic or injury process to provide you a "road map" to follow. From this you can then determine your course of action based on the criteria you have established or the goals you desire to meet. A job analysis can assist in mapping your facility to determine high risk jobs/job tasks or providing a medically based explanation of jobs in relation to their repetitiveness, or forces used.
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