Expert Ergonomics Services for healthy, efficient and productive workplaces.
Our Comprehensive Assessment Process
Our Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessments evaluate:
>Workstation setup through one-on-one evaluations
>Desk height, monitor positioning, and input device placement
>Chair configuration for optimal support
>Lighting conditions to minimize eye strain
>Specialised adaptations for individual needs (injuries, disabilities, pregnancy)
You'll receive a detailed report with specific recommendations, including equipment suggestions when needed. We also provide advice on return to work plans for employees returning after injury or illness.
Measurable Benefits for Organisations
Research by the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors shows effective ergonomics interventions deliver:
61% reduction in musculoskeletal problems
88% decrease in lost workdays
87% reduction in staff turnover
Financially, organisations typically see £1.78 return for every £1 invested, with an average payback period under 5 months. For a 100-employee company, this translates to annual savings of £38,000-£48,000 in reduced absenteeism and healthcare costs.
Proactive ergonomic solutions not only fulfil legal Health and Safety obligations but demonstrate genuine commitment to employee wellbeing.
Note use of ergonomic chair, separate keyboard and mouse, laptop on riser, top of screen at eye-level, clutter-free desk.
Sit-Stand desks offer a dynamic way of working allowing workers to change their postures.
Note use of separate keyboard and mouse, laptop on riser so top of screen at eye-level, clutter-free desk.
Work from Home (WFH) Ergonomic Assessments
Creating an optimal workstation is essential for maintaining health, enhancing efficiency and boosting productivity. When working from home, many professionals compromise their physical wellbeing by hunching over laptops or sitting in inadequate chairs for prolonged periods—a practice that can lead to long-term musculoskeletal issues.
Our comprehensive Ergonomic and Display Screen Equipment (DSE) assessments are conducted with employees at their workspace, whether in a corporate office or home environment. During these personalised evaluations, we deliver tailored recommendations for:
Desk setup and arrangement
Ergonomically appropriate furniture selection and adjustment
Optimal positioning of monitors, keyboards and accessories
Healthy working practices and movement integration
Specialised accommodations for employees with disabilities or specific needs
We provide expert guidance on cost-effective equipment investments when necessary and offer strategic advice for return-to-work plans following injury or absence. After each assessment, you'll receive a detailed written report documenting our findings and actionable recommendations, with all identified issues formally recorded for employer records.
Manufacturing Ergonomics
Ergonomic assessments in industrial workplaces (manufacturing, production, warehouses) and service sectors identify risks from awkward postures, repetitive work, high forces, complex tasks, manual handling, and poorly designed workstations. These evaluations also consider environmental factors like air quality, temperature, lighting, and noise.
Issues with high ergonomic severity require immediate resolution to eliminate or reduce risks. Solutions range from simple adjustments to more complex interventions involving engineering changes, process modifications, environmental improvements, or organisational culture shifts toward employee wellbeing.
Assessments are valuable for areas where concerns have been raised. The primary objectives are reducing musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) and repetitive strain injuries (RSI) while improving wellbeing, comfort, efficiency, and productivity.
Through observation and employee consultation, these evaluations provide comprehensive insights into tasks, equipment usage, and working environments.
Ergonomic assessments in industrial, commercial, and service environments identify risks from awkward postures, repetitive work, high forces, complex tasks, manual handling and inadequate equipment or training. Environmental factors like lighting, air quality, temperature and noise must also be evaluated.
Issues with high ergonomic risk severity require immediate resolution. Solutions range from simple adjustments to engineering modifications, process changes, improved environmental comfort or organisational culture shifts toward employee wellbeing.
Ergonomic assessments are ideal for areas where concerns have been raised, with objectives to reduce musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs), repetitive strain injuries (RSI), while improving comfort, efficiency and productivity.
Comprehensive evaluations examine tasks, equipment, environment and include direct observation and employee consultation in their actual workspace.
Working above shoulder height?
Repetitive work? Sitting for long hours?
Is there clear visibilty? Could steps be provided?
Retail environments demand a unique balance of workplace design and comprehensive staff training. While employees can be trained in safety protocols, customers cannot—making thoughtful store design, intuitive layouts, welcoming ambience, clear signage and secure processes absolutely essential!
Forward-thinking retail store owners and managers should thoroughly assess their workers' needs to maximise safety while simultaneously enhancing efficiency and productivity in this customer-facing environment.
A significant challenge facing retail management is the scarcity of industry-specific ergonomic information. This knowledge gap includes limited resources about retail-appropriate equipment selection, bespoke training and ergonomic principles tailored specifically to dynamic retail settings.
Download our comprehensive guidance leaflet today to transform your retail workplace ergonomics and create a safer environment for both staff and customers!
Retail ergonomics covers both workers and customers
Retail ergonomics covers both workers and customers
Ergo & Wellbeing can provide indoor environment design consultancy incorporating ergonomics and human factors. Office design, for example, should focus on improving wellbeing and productivity of employees and this can be supported by using a user-centred approach to design. Considerations should be given to the furniture and equipment provided, air quality, lighting, thermal and noise comfort and aesthetics.
By gaining an understanding of how your employees actually carry out their work, how they solve problems, their needs for concentrated focus time and for collaboration as well as your your organisational culture, with this knowledge our consultant can help you optimise the design of your office space and ensure your work environment supports comfort, wellbeing and increased productivity.
The WELL Building standard is a leading, comprehensive framework which aims to improve health and human experience through design in the built environment. WELL measures attributes of buildings that impact occupant health by looking at seven concepts which incorporate 100 features designed to address issues that impact the comfort, health and knowledge of a buildings users
The 10 concepts are
• Air
• Water
• Nourishment
• Light
• Movement
• Thermal Comfort
• Sound • Materials • Mind • Community
Fitwel, along with WELL, evaluates and rate the health and wellbeing aspects of the built environment with the aim of improving overall occupant experience. Fitwel and WELL are particularly focused on wellbeing and comfort, while at the same time benefiting employee performance, productivity, moral, a sense of community, retention and recruitment.
Whilst your business may not wish to engage in full certification there are very useful concepts and takeaways ideal for improving the working environment.
Whether helping to designing a project, starting the wellness conversation or transforming organisational policy, WELL and Fitwel are useful tools.
How Are Human Factors Related to the Built Environment, Healthy Buildings and Smart Buildings?
In a nutshell, human factors considers anything that impacts, affects, shapes, or influences people physically, psychologically or socially, individually or collectively. It takes into consideration our needs, wants, behaviors, capabilities and limitations. It's human-centric and always holistic.
If you are interested in understanding more, this link provides one of the most comprehensive explanations. Human factors also covers the 'related topics' mentioned when you scroll to the very bottom: biophilic design, circadian lighting, daylighting, air quality management, glare control, views, flexible workplace design, occupant thermal, acoustic and olfactory comfort, occupant control, engagement and satisfaction, productivity, and more.
And Ergonomics? It's a subset of Human Factors, under the same umbrella.
Healthy Buildings refers to considering the physical, physiological, psychological, wellbeing and social sustainability of occupants in buildings and the built environment. With people spending up to 90% of their time indoors, buildings can be key promoters of health and wellbeing.
To create healthy workplace environments and promote wellbeing, human-centric, holistic design principles and concepts can be adapted and applied to all workplace settings - schools, healthcare, industrial, institutions, commercial, hospitality, and retail.
Healthy buildings and workplace design is always collaborative and draws on the expertise of:
✔️ Architects ✔️ Designers ✔️ Engineers ✔️ Facilities management ✔️ Building services engineers (MEP, HVAC, acoustics, lighting) ✔️ Technologists ✔️ Interior designers ✔️ Biophilic designers ✔️ Ergonomists ✔️ Human factors specialists
According to the report 'The Future Workplace TOP 10 PREDICTIONS' by CBRE Ireland, "People-centric measures will become more common in the future to reflect holistic intentions of workplace design."
It's extremely encouraging to see this kind of report. Hats off to CBRE. For the good of us all and future generations, we need to refocus and turn these types of predictions into reality. For those of us connected and passionate about reshaping and reinvigorating the workplace, indoor environments and the built environment in general, there is a big challenge ahead. On the back of the pandemic, however, Ergo & Wellbeing believes the momentum and willingness to collaborate and set the bar higher is most certainly growing.
"Healthy building design and operation will take center stage."
We're up for the challenge! Are you?
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#healthybuildings
#Humanfactors
#wellbeing
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#raisethebar
Universal design is design for all. It’s about designing a product or building or civic environment so that it can be accessed and used by as many people as possible, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity and disability.
Inclusive design encourages safe, easy, comfortable and dignified use of products, services or environments in an aesthetically pleasing way. It goes beyond designing for 95% of the population. Inclusive design can be optimized for a specific user with specific design or for specific groups of the population.
Ergo & Wellbeing Ltd can offer consultancy advice to architects, engineers and product designers.
The WELL Building Standard by the International World Building Institute is the leading tool for advancing health and wellbeing in buildings and communities. It is a holistic tool, promoting social sustainability, putting people at the heart of building design.
The WELL Building Standard is a leading, comprehensive framework which aims to improve health and human experience through design in the built environment. WELL measures attributes of buildings that impact occupant health by looking at seven concepts which incorporate 100 features designed to address issues that impact the comfort, health and knowledge of a buildings users.
The 7 original concepts in WELL v.1 are •Air •Water •Nourishment •Light •Fitness •Comfort •Mind
WELL v.2 launched in 2020 builds on V.1 and now has 10 concepts
•Air •Water •Nourishment •Light •Movement •Thermal Comfort •Sound •Mind •Materials •Community
https://www.wellcertified.com/certification/v2/
Whilst your business may not wish to engage in full certification there are very useful concepts and takeaways ideal for improving the working environment.
Whether helping to designing a project, starting the wellness conversation or transforming organisational policy WELL is useful tool.
Ergo & Wellbeing Ltd are able to provide consultancy advice. Julie is a WELL AP, an accredited professional. WELL Accredited Professionals are experts in healthy building design and have made a commitment to advance human health and wellness in buildings and communities.
As part of your Project Team, Julie can help you manage your WELL Certification efforts, and advise on how to implement health & wellness strategies across the project & provide education about the project.
What can our consultant bring to the table?
As a certified Ergonomist she can assist with the WELL v.2 Movement concept, particulary the V02 Ergonomic Workstation Design, or the V11 implementation of an Ergonomics program. This feature requires that 'the project engages with a certified ergonomist (consultant, contractor or other third-party) who supports the project in achieving this...'
As a qualified Human Factors specialist, her extensive knowledge outside of WELL, allows her to have a comprehensive understanding & holistic approach to the WELL Certification process. There are HF synergies with the 10 concepts in WELL v2 which all contribute to creating a healthy building & promoting wellbeing: Air, Water, Nourishment, Light, Movement, Thermal Comfort, Sound, Materials, Mind & Community
Contact Ergo & Wellbeing if you would like to collaborate.
For more information, check out the links below.
Fitwel is a premier benchmarking and certification system for optimising building design and operations to support health and wellbeing not only in buildings, but extending into communities.
As a Fitwel Ambassador our consultant is well-versed in the connection between design, health & wellness and occupants’ experience and have a clear understanding of how to integrate the strategies into projects.
Fitwel certification is
* 55+ operational, policy and design strategies
* based on 3000+ evidence based research studies
* suitable for existing buildings and new
* cost effective
* dynamic weighted points system
* no prerequisites
* applicable across portfolios
