The Benefits of Improving Your Workspace with Ergonomics
What is Ergonomics?
Ergonomics is the science of fitting and designing any workplace to best improve efficiency and productivity while reducing discomfort. It is based on management systems, work processes, environment, and the equipment/facilities utilized during the workday. In fitting a job to the person, as opposed to asking people to adapt to their jobs, employees are more likely to feel energized, productive, and happy in their office.
Benefits
There are a number of invaluable benefits that ergonomic designs provide. Here are a few:
Reducing Long-Term Costs
Improving the ergonomic processes of any workplace can reduce costs down the line. With proper ergonomics in place, worker’s compensation and health care costs can be greatly reduced. This can be seen in making sure that desks and seats are at a proper height for writing, typing, working, and using technology. All of these reduce spine, leg, wrist, and eye problems.
Improving Productivity
Any space can be better fitted to increasing productivity. We seldom realize how tedious it can be to go back and forth to a printer, reach across our desk for frequently-used items, or adjust our chairs. These little activities throughout the day add up, taking up time and mental energy. Updating the ergonomics of an office space is sure to increase the workflow.
Improving Quality
Of course, completing sub-par work isn’t ideal. Not only does ergonomics improve productivity –the completion of work– but it also improves quality –the wholeness of work. Where poor ergonomics result in frustration and fatigue by the end of the day, better ergonomics mean that employees approach work with a fresh eye all throughout their 9 to 5.
Morale
A healthy employee is a productive one! E3 Consultants creates a positive, lasting relationship between an employee and their work environment. Uncomfortable, negative spaces wear on the health of any employee. Improving the ergonomics allows workers to feel happy within their space, so they’re focused on their work instead of their physical and mental discomfort.
Company Culture
Making a shift to an ergonomic-based workplace improves company culture greatly. It proves a commitment to safety, health, and wellness, both physical and mental. Showing your employees that you care can increase career longevity, reduce turnover, and impact performance.
How We Can Help
E3 Consulting offers a number of ergonomic resources, allowing companies to pick and choose which programs will work best for them.
Our Online Quiz
E3 Consulting offers a quick online quiz that can get any employee started on our ergonomic programs. The web-based pre-evaluation survey addresses the risk level of any individual based on ergonomic problems possibly found in their workplace. It takes only 3 to 5 minutes, and can be found on our website! Take the online quiz by contacting us here.
Evaluations
Our qualified and experienced consultants document background information, work habits, and work processes. All of this information is gathered in order to identify tools, technology, and space necessary for an individual’s ergonomic needs.
On-Site Consultations
Our consultants can visit your workplace to create strategic planning, manage programs, coordinate services, and even create personalized ergonomic internet sites for a company. We look to advise and recommend based on a case-by-case basis, so your workplace is customized specifically to you.
E3 Consulting’s Expertise
At E3, we believe that designing and tailoring ideal ergonomic programs to your company’s short and long term goals is essential. Everything we do is founded in research. Our variety of ergonomic services will improve any office, from the interactions amongst employees to individual spaces used for productivity.
