Prioritize Your Work
You may want to choose specific improvement options for various tasks in your workplace. To best prioritize the tasks that you would like to improve, conduct job hazard analyses (JHA) that focus on ergonomics hazards. Some of the things you need to analyze include:
Conduct an Ergonomics Hazard Analysis to prioritize jobs.
- worker variables (fitness, age);
- types of work (e.g., roofing, sheetrock, framing); and
- the work environment (e.g., lighting, cold exposures).
To determine which tasks you want to address first, consider the following:
- frequency and severity of complaints, symptoms, and injuries;
- contributing factors or other problems you have identified in a task;
- ideas your employees have for improvements;
- difficulty of implementing various improvements;
- your time frame for making improvements;
- potential effects on productivity, efficiency, and product or service quality; and
- technical and financial resources at your disposal.
For more information on general ergonomic factors in the workplace, please see OSHAcademy courses 711 Introduction to Ergonomics and 722 Ergonomics Program Management.
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2-10. What proactive process can best help prioritize the tasks to which you want to improve?
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