If you need to establish an economic case for ergonomics and safe patient handling, this article provides a blue print for doing so. Guest contributor Lynda Enos, courtesy of the Oregon Nurses Association, gives a detailed overview of how to make an effective business case that will result in fully funded and sustainable safety and ergonomics programs in health care facilities.

In this research review, reprinted from The Ergonomics Report Archives, researchers Straker, Levine and Campbell tested experimental subjects while performing keyboard and mouse tasks and found they performed slower and with more errors while walking on a treadmill or riding a stationary bicycle than they did while sitting or standing.

Combining ergonomics with rehabilitation engineering can change lives and provide disabled individuals with a means to do things that may otherwise seem impossible. This article highlights a few examples, including designs that help a young paraplegic auto mechanic, a multi-finger amputee mechanic, and even allow a quadriplegic to fish.