For members of the press and media interested in learning more about Humantech and our ergonomics solutions, the press room is the place to start. Download a press kit or review some of our current articles.
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| 01/01/10 |
Ergonomics - What's Real What's Not EHS Today Magazine EHS professionals often wrestle with defining ergonomics and how it fits into occupational health and safety. This article examines the definition of ergonomics and discusses how the success of an ergonomics program lies in integrating ergonomics as a continuous improvement process where health and safety, engineering and product design all contribute to the activity and share in the benefit. |
| 10/1/09 |
A Change in the Air EHS Today Magazine James Mallon's column asserts now is the time for EHS professionals to rejuvenate and regain lost ground in their health and safety processes. The article examines the use of ergonomics standards verses positioning an ergonomics programs as a tangible business tool. |
| 7/21/09 |
Good Ergonomics is Good Economics EHS Today Magazine This article highlights the challenges that EHS professionals face as the economy rebounds. There is also an action plan for the next few months to ensure that your ergonomics process is ready for takeoff once the economy begins to recover. |
| 2/27/09 |
Managing Workplace Ergonomics: Clarification & Simplification Ergonomics Branch of ASSE Newsletter This article sets out to clarify that workplace ergonomics is an engineering discipline and a means for improving human performance in time, quality and safety. It is not exclusively a tool for preventing injury and it's most effective when focused on risk and managed as an improvement process. |
| 1/31/09 |
Let's Get Physical: How to Modify your Tools to Prevent Pain at the Bench The Scientist Humantech ergonomist, Blake McGowan, offers some advice and ergonomic solutions for common laboratory procedures. |
| 07/08/08 |
Using Continuous Improvement Events in an Ergo Program Professional Safety Magazine Underestimated, underused, and untapped is the best way to describe the power of Continuous improvement events in the field of ergonomics. These events can accelerate implementation and achieve quick and sustainable results. |
| 06/08/08 |
Room to Move Industrial Engineer Magazine Explore three critical success factors for an ergonomics initiative including integration with continuous improvement, risk management, and designing for ergonomics. |
| 05/26/08 |
Ergonomics in Changing Times: What’s Happening? What Should You
Be Doing? Business and Legal Report’s OSHA Compliance Advisor The imperative to preserve resources, retain aging employees, and remain competitive is stronger than ever these days. This Compliance Report explains why ergonomics makes even more sense in a less-robust economy. |
| 02/12/08 |
Surviving Work: A Guide to Ergonomics at the Office and in the
Field Buildings Magazine With basic knowledge about risky work behaviors and ergonomic workstation design, facilities professionals can help both computer-bound tenants/occupants and their on-the-job employees avoid work-related injuries. |
| 01/30/08 |
The 30-Inch View - How to Connect Lean Thinking with Ergonomics Industrial Maintenance & Plant Operation Ergonomics can be a powerful accelerator of Lean, benefiting both safety managers and production leaders. |
| 01/15/08 | Revitalizing
Your Ergonomics Program Occupational Health & Safety C-Level Ergonomics - Determining the strengths and weaknesses of your ergonomics program. |
| 09/07/07 | Pizza
Shop Ergonomics Pizza Today Humantech's ergonomist provides tips for create a comfortable workplace for your employees. |
| 09/05/07 | A
Safer Way to Manufacture IndustryWeek Online Goodyear Tire & Rubber sees 50% drop in injury rates with new program introduced by Humantech. |
| 08/27/07 | Ergonomics
at Work Akron Beacon Journal Humantech helps Goodyear to reduce injuries in factories. |
| 08/01/07 | Driving
Continuous Improvement in Plant Safety Occupational Hazards Adopting a 30-Inch View of people and performance can lead to dramatic reductions in injury rates and significant gains in profitability, while creating a culture of respectful employee engagement. |
| 07/15/07 | Narrowing
the Lean Viewpoint Plant Engineering, Cover Story A 30-Inch View of Manufacturing will Improve Productivity and Quality. |
| 07/10/07 | ASSE
- Ergonomics at Goodyear Occupational Hazards After eliminating more than 3,600 ergonomic risks at its facilities, Akron, Ohio-based Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. has learned some valuable lessons. Among those lessons, in the words of consultant Walter Rostykus, CSP, CIH, CPE, vice president of Ann Arbor, Mich.-based Humantech Inc.: "We found that about 80 percent of the [ergonomic] problems could be solved with very low-cost, simple solutions." |
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| 08/12/10 | Humantech's Popular Ergonomics Seminar Series Continues with New Offering in the Fall of 2010 Humantech, Inc. has announced the fall schedule of its popular series of ergonomics seminars. In addition to the Applied Industrial Ergonomics seminar and the Advanced Ergonomic Design Workshop, the schedule features a new User-Centered Design course. The new course is presented with their United Kingdom partner, System Concepts. |
| 07/15/10 | Fourth Annual Find It - Fix It Challenge™ Call for Entries The fourth annual Find It - Fix It Challenge, open to all Humantech clients, past or present, recognizes and rewards simple and effective workplace solutions that result in increased productivity, improved worker morale, and fewer workplace injuries and illnesses. Contest entries are accepted from July 15, 2010 to September 15, 2010. |
| 02/11/10 | Ergonomics Seminars Schedule Expanded for 2010 Humantech has announced an expanded schedule of its popular series of ergonomics seminars. The 2010 schedule features a new Advanced Ergonomic Design Workshop. Seminars will be offered in Humantech's Ann Arbor, Mich. corporate office, Nashville, Tenn, Atlanta, GA, and London, UK. |
| 12/10/09 | John Deere Takes Top Honors in the Third Annual Humantech Find It - Fix It ChallengeTM Humantech announced the winners of its third annual Find It - Fix It Challenge, which recognizes and rewards simple and effective workplace solutions that result in increased productivity, improved worker morale, and fewer workplace injuries and illnesses. First place was awarded to John Deere Des Moines Works. |
| 07/08/09 | Fall Ergonomics Seminars Target Improving Productivity and Reducing Injuries Humantech has announced the fall schedule of its popular series of ergonomics seminars. The fall schedule features a new office ergonomics course, co-sponsored by AliMed, and an industrial ergonomics course. Seminars will be offered in Humantech's Ann Arbor, Mich. corporate training center, Newport Beach, Calif., and Houston, Texas. |
| 06/04/09 | Humantech Selected for NAEM Affiliates Council Humantech is please to announce its membership on NAEM's Affiliate Council. NAEM, the premier association for EHS Management, is a non-profit, non-partisan educational association dedicated to advancing the knowledge and practice of Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) management. |
| 05/15/09 | Humantech
Calls for Entries in the Third Annual Find It – Fix It Challenge™
The third annual Find It – Fix It Challenge recognizes and rewards simple and effective workplace solutions that result in increased productivity, improved worker morale, and fewer workplace injuries and illnesses. The contest, open to all Humantech clients, past or present, runs May 15, 2009 to September 15, 2009. |
| 04/30/09 | Humantech
Announces Staff Promotions and Expansion within Its Ergonomics
Consulting Team Humantech is pleased to announce the promotion of Blake McGowan, CPE to managing consultant, Heather Ritz, CPE, to senior consultant, and the addition of Miguel Gonzalez to its talented team of professionals. |
| 04/23/09 | Humantech
Cited as a Winning Supplier in 2009 Medical Design Excellence
Awards Humantech announced that it is a named supplier for a 2009 Medical Design Excellence Award winning product, NuStep's T5XR Recumbent Cross Trainer. The exercise machine was a collaborative effort that drew on the expertise of ergonomic specialists, exercise physiologists, and the input of their customers. |
| 01/27/09 | Spring
Series of Ergonomics Seminars Targets Improving Productivity and
Reducing Workplace Injuries Humantech announced the spring schedule of its popular series of ergonomics seminars. The spring 2009 seminar schedule features a new office ergonomics course, co-sponsored by AliMed, and industrial ergonomics. Seminars will be offered in Newport Beach, Calif., Nashville, Tenn., and Humantech's Ann Arbor, Mich. corporate training center. |
| 01/20/09 | Humantech
Continues to Advance the Pursuit of Ergonomics-Related College
Studies by Awarding Scholarships Humantech announced the recipients of its 2008 - 2009 scholarship program. Linsey Barker, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Sarah Grigg, Clemson University, and Andrew Jeffery, University of Waterloo each earned $1,500 for demonstrating their passion for advancing the field of ergonomics, strong academic background, and original project or unique practical application in ergonomics. |
| 12/03/08 | Gerdau
Ameristeel Facility Wins the Second Annual Humantech Find It -
Fix It Challenge Humantech announced the winners of its second annual Find It - Fix It Challenge, which recognizes and rewards simple and effective workplace solutions that result in increased productivity, improved worker morale, and fewer workplace injuries and illnesses. For the second year in a row, first place was awarded to Gerdau Ameristeel Charlotte, North Carolina Facility. |
| 09/15/08 | Humantech
and AliMed Team Up for Office Product Productivity Humantech and AliMed inc. have joined forces to increase office productivity and improve office ergonomics bringing together Humantech's ergonomic and productivity expertise and AliMed's vast inventory of ergonomic products. |
| 07/09/08 | Humantech
Supports Students with Ergonomics College Scholarship Program Humantech reaffirms its commitment to assist students in the pursuit of ergonomics–related education with the 2008 – 2009 ergonomics college scholarship program. |
| 05/22/08 | Increase
Productivity and Accelerate Health and Safety Excellence with
Fall Ergonomics Seminar Series Humantech’s fall seminar schedule covers such topics as industrial ergonomics, office ergonomics, and leveraging ergonomics in lean manufacturing. |
| 05/14/08 | Humantech's
Find It – Fix It Challenge Showcases Workplace Improvements
Second annual Find It - Fix It Challenge recognizes and rewards simple and effective workplace solutions that result in increased productivity, improved worker morale, and fewer workplace injuries and illnesses. The contest, open to all Humantech clients, past or present, runs May 1, 2008 to September 12, 2008. |
| 04/09/08 | New
Ergonomic Design Handbook Offers Guidelines to Reduce Injuries
and Improve Productivity The Handbook of Ergonomic Design Guidelines, published by Humantech, leaders in the field of workplace improvement, provides the data needed to design and maintain a world-class work environment. The full-color handbook offers specific, practical, and application-oriented guidelines. |
| 02/01/08 | Humantech
Introduces New Lean Seminar, More Locations in Spring Public Ergonomics
Training Series Humantech's spring seminar series takes a 30-Inch View ™ — examining the intersection between people, work, and their environment - to help health and safety staff, engineers, facilities managers, and ergonomics committees gain the skills and tools needed to make practical, cost-effective workplace improvements. |
| 01/31/08 | Gerdau
Ameristeel Facility Wins the Inaugural Humantech Find It - Fix
It Challenge Gerdau Ameristeel wins Humantech's first Find It - Fix It Challenge, which celebrates companies that embrace a 30-Inch View ™ of their people and performance. Genie Industries and Denso receive honorable mentions. |
Press Contact
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Kelly Robertson
Marketing Communications Specialist
Humantech
1161 Oak Valley Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
Tel: 734.663.3330, ext. 132
Fax: 734.663.7747
E-mail Kelly