Services

At Essential Ergonomics, we offer industry specific expertise and flexibility in our consulting services, to provide the greatest value to your facility. Our knowledge comes from years of working in the field, learning the complex workplace of healthcare and related areas. Consequently, our solutions are practical and achievable.

Please contact us to discuss your work safety needs.

In-service training

Ergo Evaluations

Lectures

Purchasing Consultation

Product Development Consultation

In-service training

Catalyst In-Service Training provides detailed instruction tailored to address the needs of your work environment. This personalized training assesses work safety needs based on your input and establishes active participation with employees to become engaged in the work safety process. Program framework is developed by investigating questions such as:

What is the situation that is of greatest concern?
How does it affect your department?
What would be most useful in addressing these concerns?

A catalyst is something that accelerates a process or changes the course of a route of delivery. Let Essential Ergonomics Catalyst Program change staff ideology and facilitate safer, more streamline work processes. Contact us for assistance with Catalyst In-service Training.

Ergo Evaluations

Our staff of Certified Ergonomic Workplace Evaluators provides ergonomic consulting services with the following objectives in mind:

Identify potential ergonomic risk factors
Improve workstation design and layout
Instruct employee on workstation equipment features, and review proper posture
Review work practices or workstation interface techniques
Recommend correct ergonomic equipment, as needed, to encourage a neutral body position

Essential Ergonomics offers different levels of ergonomic workplace evaluation programs, based on your needs, time and budget. Implementing work safety programs as a means of reducing injury rates can be a significant cost savings. Early intervention is vital in avoiding long-term, debilitating injury. Keeping highly skilled staff is ultimately a cost saving measure, improving staff turnover rates, productivity and bottom line finances.

As an approved LNI provider in Washington State, Essential Ergonomics offers experience in job modifications and pre-job modifications. Interventions relating to work schedule, adaptive equipment and modified duties are effective in helping the injured employee perform the essential functions of their job. Contact us for job modification assistance.

Lectures

Susan Murphey’s Courage to Change lecture programs provide engaging, inspiring and insightful looks into implementing safe practices in the workplace. In the Metaphysics, Aristotle stated, "The whole is more than the sum of its parts." This suggests that all the properties of a given system cannot be determined by the sum of its component parts alone. Instead, the system as a whole determines how the individual parts behave. Based on a holistic approach to work-life balance and a practical look at making the best with what you’ve got, Ms. Murphey encourages change through breaking down processes into manageable pieces. Although the causes of work-related injury are complex, education in ergonomics empowers professionals with the tools to manage their risk for injury.

For information on lectures, demonstrations and workshops, contact us.

Purchasing Consultation

Be confident of the ergonomic benefit of your capital equipment purchases by having Essential Ergonomics provide vendor-neutral feedback prior to purchasing. Many manufacturers quote ergonomic benefit, but it’s hard to know what really works and what is best for your particular needs. Wise investment decisions come from informed choices. Whether its office workstation equipment, such as keyboard trays, monitors and chairs or healthcare ancillary equipment such as exam tables, patient transfer devices or workstations on wheels, Essential Ergonomics will save you money by assuring the equipment purchased is best suited to the needs of the worker. Contact us (link) for more information.

Product Development Consultation

Essential Ergonomics can help your product development team realize ergonomic design improvements that could set your products apart in the market. Our principle, Susan Murphey, has extensive experience with product design evaluation, and is well versed in the design process. Some of the companies she has provided original equipment manufacturer design input include:

Siemens Medical Systems
GE Healthcare
WL Gore & Associates
Precision Interconnect