Introducing an Easy, Fast, and Effective Way to Determine if ALL your Employees are Working with Maximum Ergonomic Efficiency, Compliance, and Safety...

So you...

• Improve productivity
• Decrease costly absenteeism
• Provide a comfortable workplace
• Instantly receive detailed risk reports to help you comply with workplace laws

I’m Marnie Douglas, a licensed physiotherapist in Sydney. As soon as I opened the doors to my practice, I noticed something very strange. Fit people would arrive in my office with neck pain, back pain, wrist pain, and shoulder pain. In many cases, the pain was so awful they had to miss work.

I would ask these patients if they had a sports injury - or had been in some type of car accident.

“No,” they would reply. “I spend all day working in my office.”

You see, the modern workplace can be extremely harmful to a person’s health. The simple act of sitting down all day in a misaligned or poorly designed chair can lead to a wide range of physical problems that lead to lost productivity and missed work days.

Plus...employees who get these problems can get fed up with the company and start to look around for a company that will simply pay attention to their comfort and ergonomics. Not paying attention to workplace economics can be expensive.

In fact, PC World Magazine reported that repetitive strain injuries caused by poor ergonomics cost U.S. companies $600 million a year. And the magazine also reported that 68% of employees in a recent survey reported workplace discomfort - simply from sitting down all day!

After seeing so many employees experiencing pain from office work, I started a consulting service to help companies of all sizes improve their ergonomics. And it’s been very effective.

However, in working with many of Australia’s top companies, I ran into another problem: the people in charge of office health and safety found it difficult to keep up with potential ergonomic problems in their offices. Health and safety specialists simply do not have the time to make sure that every employee is ‘sitting comfortably’ throughout the day.

So, with input from clients, I came up with a simple software solution that lets people in charge of ergonomics pinpoint potential ergonomic problems quickly and easily.

I named the software ErgoAssess and you can discover how you’ll benefit from the software by watching the short video below.

What is ErgoAssess?

ErgoAssess is a web-based tool that helps employers fully assess the ‘state of ergonomics’ in their work place. ErgoAssess starts with an online survey to ask employees about their work practices, desk configuration, and other key ergonomic factors. Surveys take less than ten minutes and can be completed at home or in the office.

Management receives a comprehensive report detailing potential ergonomic risks. For low risk employees, the system provides educational ergonomic advice online. If the survey results indicate there’s a high risk of injury, you can make the necessary adjustments to their workplace environment.

ErgoAssess:

• Minimises disruption.
• Saves your organization money - up to 70% because HR employees don’t have to go desk-to-desk assessing ergonomics.
• Is simple to implement and manage.
• Runs over the Internet so there’s no need to buy equipment.
• Can be fully customised.
• Can be ready in days.
• Is extremely cost-effective.

Here’s How ErgoAssess Works...

• Every employee receives an email asking them to complete a survey.
• The survey asks the employee about their workstation and their level of comfort during the day.
• Through the survey, employees start to understand the importance of ergonomics and how it can benefit them.
• The software provides specific recommendations based on problems that have been reported.
• The software stores all the information so the company gains an accurate picture of the general effectiveness of its ergonomics program.
• HR employees can also pinpoint specific problems and make changes that will help all employees.
• ErgoAssess can provide 10 different reports.

With the information you receive from ErgoAssess, you can take broad and specific action to help you minimize risk and significantly improve workplace ergonomics...providing the following valuable benefits:

• Reduced exposure to legal liability.
• Decreased absenteeism.
• A clear picture of the overall comfort levels of your employees.
• Fewer visits to doctors and health care professionals.
• Significant improvements in productivity.

Remember - the medical problems associated with repetitive workplace injuries CAN be prevented. And ErgoAssess provides you with the information you need to take the necessary steps to prevent these injuries.

The Home Office Problem

With so many companies letting employees telecommute, there’s a significant ‘new’ problem - only a small number of employees have an ergonomic set up at home. Again - ErgoAssess alerts you to this problem. And remember - recent court rulings have put the burden on employees to maintain worker safety even in the home office!

Current Ergoworks clients include:

BNP Paribas Bank UBS World Bank Macquarie Bank Deloitte Lendlease Fairfax Brambles

Energy Australia CI Property APRA Rider Levett Bucknall GMACRFC Jones Lang La Salle Employers Mutual

To discover how you can benefit from ErgoAssess, call (02) 9251 0822 or fill out this form.

Are they Sitting Comfortably? What You Receive with ErgoAssess and How it Helps.

ErgoAssess Reporting

• Provides a complete audit trail of ergonomic effectiveness in your organization.
• Means that employees can be located nationally or even globally and the administrator can view the reports from any computer.
• Lets you know if an employee is Low, Medium, or High Risk.
• The ErgoAssess Dashboard lets you see the entire organization’s risk profile at a single glance.
• Lets you access group and individual ergonomics quickly.
• Provides complete management of staff ergonomic health from one simple screen.

• Backend Reports provide more in-depth ergonomic information plus a complete audit trail.
• View reports by floor, department, and cost centre so that you can easily manage accounts/billing for each department using the service.
• Detailed risk level and compliance reports to help you ensure compliance with workplace laws.
• Complete workplace compliance history.

Eight Valuable Reports Available Instantly

1. Administrator Activity Report. Summary of the administrator's work activity i.e. emails/reminders sent over a given date range. Used when the administrator needs to report back to an associate within the organization about what they have been doing over a given time frame.
2. Assessment Result Report. This report provides statistics for participant's answers.
3. Assessment Response Report Summary. Presents responses of each of the questions such as number and percentage of positive responses and number and percentage of negative responses.
4. Risk Report. Helps the administrator determine the users and employees with the greatest exposure levels.
5. Compliance Report. Highlights employees that have not completed their assessment. It also shows employees who have not read/responded to emailed recommendations within a given time period.
6. Email Audit Report Details. Automated emails being generated for each group of users/employees such as initial invitation, reminders, and recommendations based on date range.
7. Individual Data Report. Provides a data trail of individual user/employees and their current status relating to the completion of their workstation assessment as well as their specific answers to questions.
8. Licensing Report. The number of licenses used within a date range for a given area/department/cost centre.

Easy and Fast for Employees

For the employee, we’ve made ErgoAssess extremely simple. Employees receive an email and click directly to the survey. Employees simply answer questions about their workplace/workstation; they can also access tips to help them avoid poor practices that can lead to injury.

Low risk users receive educational/self-help materials when the survey is finished. HR employees receive direct notification about high risk users.

To get ErgoAssess working for you, simply complete the form below and we’ll contact you.

Case Study: ErgoAssess and Home Based Associates

McKesson implemented ErgoAssess to reduce the risks posed to their 429 Australian and 120 New Zealand home based workers. Before this, McKesson used a paper based risk assessment which included asking staff to take several photographs of their home office.

As well as proving time consuming for employees, this paper based process also presented significant time demands on managers with the unenviable task of tracking and monitoring these assessments.

Because ErgoAssess provides its solutions online, it has helped McKesson easily assess the work environments of all remote workers. It has also helped to provide consistent ergonomic education and training to every employee. ErgoAssess was initially customised to ensure it appeared as a McKesson initiative and the content was specifically tweaked to suit the individual requirements of the organisation.

McKesson recognised that having employees in their home environments poses certain OHS risks; by tailoring ErgoAssess to mitigate these risks, McKesson can ensure that staff are working in a safe home office environment.

ErgoAssess has helped McKesson improve the attitude of staff toward the importance of health and safety by educating and training employees to take responsibility for their working environment.

“Marnie Douglas and her team provided seamless, professional and expert support throughout the whole process.” Merrin Clark. Human Resources Advisor.

Call us today at (02) 9251 0822 to discover more about ErgoAssess. Or complete the form and we’ll contact you so we can learn more about your needs.

To YOUR health,

Marnie Douglas