Hospitality Ergonomics Resources
Hospitality environments involve fast-paced, physically demanding tasks that can increase ergonomic risk for employees across housekeeping, food service, and guest services. This ergonomics resource hub provides practical guidance, tools, and educational materials to help hospitality organizations identify risk factors, improve task design, and support safer, more sustainable operations.
Impact
95% Reduction
in Worker Compensation Claims
After nearly losing its workers’ compensation insurance coverage due to numerous expensive employee claims resulting from patient handling, an ergonomics assessment identified numerous work practices and equipment options for an ambulance district’s paramedics and EMTs. After implementing these work practices and placing improved equipment on ambulances and fly cars, the District reduced its patient-handling related workers’ compensation claims by 95%.
95% Reduction
in Worker Compensation Claims
After nearly losing its workers’ compensation insurance coverage due to numerous expensive employee claims resulting from patient handling, an ergonomics assessment identified numerous work practices and equipment options for an ambulance district’s paramedics and EMTs. After implementing these work practices and placing improved equipment on ambulances and fly cars, the District reduced its patient-handling related workers’ compensation claims by 95%.
Articles
The Ergonomics of Hand-Held Technology
The 2018 California OSHA Hotel Housekeeper Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Program (MIPP) Standard
Proper Design Keeps Employees Safer & Makes Companies More Successful!
It’s International Housekeepers Week–Let’s Manage Risks & Get Back to Work!
Risks Know No Borders
Is Your Hotel Getting All it Can from the MIPP?
Don’t Forget this if Your Hotel is in California
Why Are PJDs Important?
What is Psychosocial Stress?
Risk Assessment Matrices, and Why they are Important
What is Cal/OSHA?
What is a Risk Assessment?
What is Ergonomics?
How in the F&B Can a California Hotel Property Comply?
How Much Would You Invest to Get Better?
PJD’s Help Companies Get New Business!
The End is Near for 2019 MIPP Compliance!
It’s National Ergonomics Month…Really!
Twenty-five Years of Consulting!
A New Way to Honor Your Housekeepers!
QP3 Protects Hardworking Housekeepers!
Cal/OSHA Hotel Housekeeper MIPP Standard
Downloadables
Applied Ergonomics
This article Using the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment examines the effect of the new Hotel Housekeeping California Standard
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