Ergonomic hazards exist in all areas of life, from daily chores to your professional environment. Here’s what to watch for and ways to reduce your risk of injury.

In ergonomics, this means that by identifying and applying the essential design standards, businesses can mitigate most ergonomic hazards. To determine which ergonomic standards to prioritize ...

Course Description. This course covers industrial hygiene practices and related OSHA regulations and procedures. Course topics include recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical, physical, ...

Additionally, the agreement formalises ergonomic safety steps already taken by Amazon at locations previously cited by OSHA for related hazards in 2023.

Though there is no ergonomics standard, OSHA has used Section 5(a)(1) of the Occupational Safety and Health Act—the General Duty Clause—to cite employers when ergonomic hazards are identified ...

But the agency does not have a specific rule for ergonomics, which means it must jump through extra hoops to penalize warehouses for those hazards. (The agency issued an ergonomic standard in 2000 ...

Amazon will pay $145,000 and institute various safety measures to settle a series of cases — including two in Colorado — brought by the U.S. Department of Labor over hazardous working conditions.

Course Description. This course covers industrial hygiene practices and related OSHA regulations and procedures. Course topics include recognition, evaluation, and control of chemical, physical, ...