Workplace Risk Assessment and Ergonomic Review
WORKPLACE ERGONOMIC ASSESSMENT
Workplace Ergonomic Assessment (WpEA) supports employees by analysing and reducing health risks related to the job role.
A WpEA is an ergonomic assessment of ‘Applied Ergonomics’ or the design of a task.
Features
For the employer
For the manager
For the employee
A WpEA is used to address the design of a task.
For example, a job role may involve the simple task of transferring liquid into a barrel in a factory and then moving that barrel to a warehouse.
The single task is comprised of several separate activities, each element poses a specific ergonomic challenge, and the task must be completed by multiple people of varying builds, abilities and physical competency.
The WpEA will assess the role in full, broken down into separate tasks to identify any risk factors, what those risk factors relate to in terms of potential injury and how to overcome the risk of injury for the majority workforce.
We consider our WpEA’s to be pro-active workplace assessments of workforce analysis and best practices.
We adopt a methodical, step-by-step approach to completing them comprising three key elements:
The MSK team scrutinise absence data and any clinical data recorded as part of absence management to establish task performance risk areas and the types of risk presented, i.e., back, upper limb, lower limb. This data would drive the investigations into the duration and frequency of MSK injury or illness within the workforce. A review of the organisational HSE risk assessments provided by the employer would identify higher-risk roles which would allow us to collaborate with the operational business departments that have the highest levels of risk.
Clinically delivered WpEA’s by an MSK expert or Ergonomist would finalise the investigation and includes prioritising the highest risk tasks, roles, and workforces to gather information related to body mapping, and specific workforce characteristics including age, health, activity levels, BMI etc.
Physio Solutions have access to a wide variety of data, including our own clinical management information data, which we can use to perform statistical analysis alongside the clients own organisational absence data. When performing clinical ergonomic or risk assessments, we have access to all approved and reliable ergonomic assessment tools, such as ART, MAC, QEC, RAPP REBA, RULA and these would be integrated practically and clinically, where appropriate.
The most valuable resource is our team of MSK experts and Physiotherapists who are trained in ergonomics and have the ability to accurately gather factual data, evaluate it and provide robust outcome measures of ergonomic risk, including a RAG score, and to identify any areas requiring immediate attention. Our solution lead team are then able to engage ‘out of the box’ thinking to suggest recommendations to mitigate or eradicate risks.
Physio Solutions have access to a wide variety of data, including our own clinical management information data, which we can use to perform statistical analysis alongside the clients own organisational absence data. When performing clinical ergonomic or risk assessments, we have access to all approved and reliable ergonomic assessment tools, such as ART, MAC, QEC, RAPP REBA, RULA and these would be integrated practically and clinically, where appropriate.
The most valuable resource is our team of MSK experts and Physiotherapists who are trained in ergonomics and have the ability to accurately gather factual data, evaluate it and provide robust outcome measures of ergonomic risk, including a RAG score, and to identify any areas requiring immediate attention. Our solution lead team are then able to engage ‘out of the box’ thinking to suggest recommendations to mitigate or eradicate risks.
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