HEALTH ASSESSMENT

Initial Ergonomic Risk Assessment (IERA)

Professional ergonomic risk assessments and analyses are a worthwhile investment for your business. It is an effective cost reduction in medical, insurance premiums, absenteeism, and potential litigation.

Good ergonomics optimize workplace processes, workstations, tools, and systems, enabling employees to perform work safely and efficiently with less stress and fewer injuries, including Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs). An ergonomic risk assessment aims to support employees’ health and productivity.

Ergonomic risk assessments are designed to help organizations identify ergonomic risks and challenges and evaluate cost-effective improvement strategies relevant to safety and health regulations and standards.

Our Approach
An ergonomics risk assessment incorporates a root-cause analysis to determine the main stressors and contributors to the development of musculoskeletal disorders in the job and work tasks. Specific analysis techniques may include biomechanical models, energy expenditure evaluations, time & motion studies, force measurement, postural analysis, and standardized evaluation tools (e.g., NIOSH lifting equation).

Hazard and Risks Identification
Risk assessment covers the work, worker, and workstation
These give an in-depth overview and understanding of the extent of long-term health risks to employees.

Work – Task Analysis
Observations techniques applied to identify improvement opportunities in five (5) stages:
1. Identification.
2. Video recording.
3. Subtasks separation.
4. Video analysis.
5. Frame classification.

Worker – Employee Interviews
One-to-one interviews and employee consultation help uncover ergonomic-related matters, needs, and challenges which can be difficult to measure through observation alone, such as worker comfort, usability, job stress, and perceived job demands to name the least.

Workstation – Design Standards
An ergonomics risk assessment incorporates a root-cause analysis to determine the main stressors and contributors to the development of musculoskeletal disorders in the job and work tasks. Specific analysis techniques may include biomechanical models, energy expenditure evaluations, time & motion studies, force measurement, postural analysis, and standardized evaluation tools (e.g., NIOSH lifting equation).

Work Environment
A physical hazard such as thermal conditions, illumination and noise are considered in the analysis that may impact employee performance, health, and well-being.

Our experts have collective experience in diverse industries that delivers innovative, practical ergonomics and human factors solutions.

We will provide tailored, data-driven reports, risk prioritization and recommendations from the ergonomic risk assessment.

This report will aid the management in making informed decisions by reviewing the trends and formulating goals resulting in optimal action plans and solution strategies.

SPS offers cost-effective ergonomic risk services and solutions to suit your organization’s needs:
1. Initial Ergonomic Risk Assessment
2. Advance Ergonomic Risk Assessment
3. Ergonomic Risks at Workplace training
4. Ergonomics Team/Committee Training
5. Ergonomic-related seminars and exhibitions.
6. Occupational health consultation 

Advance Ergonomic Risk Assessment (ADERA)

Professional ergonomic risk assessments and analyses are a worthwhile investment for your business. It is an effective cost reduction in medical, insurance premiums, absenteeism, and potential litigation.

Good ergonomics optimize workplace processes, workstations, tools, and systems, enabling employees to perform work safely and efficiently with less stress and fewer injuries, including Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs). An ergonomic risk assessment aims to support employees’ health and productivity.

Ergonomic risk assessments are designed to help organizations identify ergonomic risks and challenges and evaluate cost-effective improvement strategies relevant to safety and health regulations and standards.

Our Approach
An ergonomics risk assessment incorporates a root-cause analysis to determine the main stressors and contributors to the development of musculoskeletal disorders in the job and work tasks. Specific analysis techniques may include biomechanical models, energy expenditure evaluations, time & motion studies, force measurement, postural analysis, and standardized evaluation tools (e.g., NIOSH lifting equation).

Hazard and Risks Identification
Risk assessment covers the work, worker, and workstation
These give an in-depth overview and understanding of the extent of long-term health risks to employees.

Work – Task Analysis
Observations techniques applied to identify improvement opportunities in five (5) stages:
1. Identification.
2. Video recording.
3. Subtasks separation.
4. Video analysis.
5. Frame classification.

Worker – Employee Interviews
One-to-one interviews and employee consultation help uncover ergonomic-related matters, needs, and challenges which can be difficult to measure through observation alone, such as worker comfort, usability, job stress, and perceived job demands to name the least.

Workstation – Design Standards
An ergonomics risk assessment incorporates a root-cause analysis to determine the main stressors and contributors to the development of musculoskeletal disorders in the job and work tasks. Specific analysis techniques may include biomechanical models, energy expenditure evaluations, time & motion studies, force measurement, postural analysis, and standardized evaluation tools (e.g., NIOSH lifting equation).

Work Environment
A physical hazard such as thermal conditions, illumination and noise are considered in the analysis that may impact employee performance, health, and well-being.

Our experts have collective experience in diverse industries that delivers innovative, practical ergonomics and human factors solutions.

We will provide tailored, data-driven reports, risk prioritization and recommendations from the ergonomic risk assessment.

This report will aid the management in making informed decisions by reviewing the trends and formulating goals resulting in optimal action plans and solution strategies.

SPS offers cost-effective ergonomic risk services and solutions to suit your organization’s needs:
1. Initial Ergonomic Risk Assessment
2. Advance Ergonomic Risk Assessment
3. Ergonomic Risks at Workplace training
4. Ergonomics Team/Committee Training
5. Ergonomic-related seminars and exhibitions.
6. Occupational health consultation 

Stress Assessment

Stress is an adverse reaction to an employee experiencing excessive pressure or overload work demands. Work-related stress refers to the process that arises where overload work demand or pressure of various and can be combinations that exceed the individual capacity and ability to cope varies among employees.

Stress is not a medical diagnosis, but prolonged exposure to stress can lead to both physical and psychological damage such as anxiety, depression and mental health issues.

Stress is multifacet, affecting employees, their families and work colleagues as well as employers with costs relating to medical, absenteeism, hiring and replacement cost, lost production and increased accidents. Thus, tackling stress is paramount and is effective for health and well-being management in every workplace.

Employers have a duty of care under the Occupational Safety and Health Act 1994 to undertake risk assessments to identify, minimize or eliminate risks to their employees’ health, safety and welfare.
A stress risk assessment is a careful examination of a workplace that could cause an employee to suffer from work-related stress.

Stress risk assessments aim at hazard recognition, identify who may be exposed and how to evaluate risk and decide on control points, record findings and carry out regular reviews.

Our Approach

Covering the six (6) key areas of work design that are known to contribute to stress at work set out in a Management Standard framework:

1. Demands
   This includes issues such as workload, work patterns and the work environment.
2. Control
   How much say the person has in the way they do their work
3. Support
   This includes the encouragement, sponsorship and resources provided by the organisation, line management and colleagues.
4. Relationship
   Promoting positive working to avoid conflict and dealing with unacceptable behaviour.
5. Role
   Ensuring employee understands their role within the organisation and that they do not have conflicting roles.
6. Change
   How organisational change (large or small) is managed and communicated in the organisation.

We’re a team of experienced safety professionals ready to assist your organization in identifying the major stress risk factors and formulating an action plan and control measure strategy to tackle long-term stress resulting in higher job satisfaction, mental health stability, happier and healthier work culture.

Contact our Safety Professional Facilitator today to find out more on out services:
i. Stress Risk Assessment
ii. Stress Risk at Workplace awareness training
iii. Stress Management training
iv. Mental Health awareness training for managers
v. Mental Health awareness training

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