No matter who we are, where we are, or what language we speak, EH&S risks hurt people, no matter how much one may try to hide or suppress the pain, ill-feeling, or discomfort. Whether a job is in processing, manufacturing, transportation & distribution, assembly, packaging, or an office, or whether working from home—safety risk factors…
In 2016 over a three-week period, 3,000 corporate headquarters employees at my former company moved from one building to a new one. Even after six months, very few employees experienced work-related MSDs. In 2020, millions of people around the world moved, over about three weeks, to new home offices. And various studies show that about…
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…