Many people working from home went from a “regular” office to a home office. But the pandemic-inspired move to working at home has affected another important group of people, who are starting to have real problems. A recent survey found that about 67 percent of people new to working at home are having “major ergonomics…
Design fascinates me. Companies open new, beautiful hotels, install multi-million dollar production lines, or spend millions on office furniture and accessories, yet do not engage Ergonomists like me in the design phase. Then they wonder why the rooms aren’t properly cleaned, production and maintenance employees are getting hurt, and office employees don’t use the full…
Recently at QP3 ErgoSystems, we conducted an unscientific survey to learn about what people want to do yet this year, and what may influence their willingness to patronize a particular travel company, hotel, restaurant, bar, or other business. From our survey, 21.4% were small business owners, managers, 21.4% were in the hospitality industry, and 57.1%…
Millions of people around the world are suddenly now working from home, and QP3 ErgoSystems has the answer for your Office Ergonomics needs! We offer formal remote video ergonomics assessments and reports for larger companies that have formal risk management and safety programs. We also are proud to introduce personal, short, one-on-one video assessments for…
As a BSA Scoutmaster, I have been working with our leadership team to keep things going during this Covid-19 Pandemic. We are going to be using video conferences because we cannot meet, as our sponsoring organization has just cancelled all meetings. We are finding new ways to keep our Scouts moving forward, and you should…
Twenty-five years ago I had a new wife in one state, and a job at the opposite end of another state! After graduate school, in early 1992, 27 1/2 years ago, I accepted and began a journey as the facility Ergonomist at Alcoa’s Warrick Operations, one of the largest aluminum smelters in the world. To…
It’s International Housekeeping Week, and QP3 is enjoying all of your great posts honoring housekeepers around the world! We help housekeepers by identifying risk factors that cause injury, helping them find the right tools and equipment to make work faster, easier, and better, and by providing fun (and important) training to help them reduce stresses…
Click on the link and check out our Principal’s article in the July issue of Industrial and Systems Engineering Magazine! This article is provided with permission of the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers from the July 2018 issue of ISE, Copyright©2018 Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers. All rights reserved.
Today I had the good fortune of speaking with friend and former colleague Regina McMichael, Keynote Speaker and Guru, as we discussed the talk I am giving at the National Ergonomics Conference & Exposition (NECE) in Las Vegas on August 22. It is exciting, as I will be among the very first people to present…