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Keeping employees healthy and comfortable through ergonomic education, injury prevention and health promotion improves work performance, morale, and job satisfaction, is cost-effective, and lowers Workers’ Compensation costs.
Ergonomic consulting services include assessments as well as education and training.
The range of ergonomic consulting services available includes workstation assessments, on-site assessments for managers and employees in varied work environments (office, industrial, healthcare), early intervention assessments, and design of education and training programs to improve safety and promote health.
Teri Katz, MSPT brings 25 years of experience and knowledge of physical therapy, ergonomics, education and integrated health practice to her work with employers, safety professionals, healthcare providers and employees.
Employees are the most valuable resource a company has. A healthy workforce means a healthy organization and a healthy bottom line. Good health is good business.
- For every $1 invested in injury prevention and health promotion programs, employers save between $4.30 and $5.90.
- Work injuries cost employers an estimated $121 billion annually in medical care, lost productivity and wages, Workers’ Compensation claims, absenteeism, replacement and retraining, administrative and legal costs and employee accommodations.
- One in eight workers is in pain, costing U.S. business an estimated $61.2 billion annually, and reducing employee productivity and morale.
- Job stress is estimated to cost American industry $200 -$300 billion annually.
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