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How to Build a Proactive Workplace Health and Injury Prevention Strategy
See how job demands, ergonomics, movement, return to work, office ergonomics and wellbeing can work together as one proactive workplace health strategy.
Quick answer: A proactive workplace health strategy connects the information organizations need before, during and after an injury occurs. Job demands define the work. Ergonomic assessment identifies exposure. Functional screening adds information about the person. Return-to-work processes connect capacity with demand. Office ergonomics and wellbeing extend the strategy across the broader workforce.
- Treat job demands, ergonomics, movement, return to work and wellbeing as connected parts of one system.
- Use different technologies for different questions instead of expecting one tool to solve every problem.
- Focus on implementation, training and action - not simply collecting more data.
What is a proactive workplace health strategy?
Workplace health is not one problem. An employee's experience at work is influenced by the physical demands of the job, how the job is designed, how they move, the equipment they use, their workstation, their health and their overall wellbeing.
That is why Longitude6 takes a multi-technology approach to workplace health. Rather than focusing on one assessment or one type of technology, we help organizations build programs around the questions they actually need to answer.
Start with objective job demands
Understanding the physical demands of work creates the foundation for many workplace health programs. Job Task Analyses - also commonly referred to as Physical Demands Analyses, Physical Demands Descriptions or Job Demands Analyses - help organizations objectively document what employees are required to do.
This information can support return to work, accommodation, ergonomic programs and injury prevention.
Assess how work is performed
Longitude6 provides access to technology that helps organizations evaluate how work is performed. Computer vision can provide video-based movement analysis. Wearable sensor technology can capture detailed movement information. Office ergonomic platforms can support workstation assessment.
Together, these tools help organizations identify opportunities to improve how work is designed.
Understand how people move
MotionTrack6 provides organizations with an additional way to understand movement. While ergonomic assessment evaluates the interaction between the worker and the job, functional movement screening provides information about the individual. These different perspectives can complement one another within a broader workplace health program.
Connect capacity with job demands
Return-to-work programs become stronger when employers understand the demands of their jobs. Objective job-demand information can help organizations compare employee restrictions or abilities with actual job requirements and identify potential modified duties.
Move from reactive to proactive injury prevention
Injury prevention is rarely the result of one assessment. Effective programs require organizations to identify where exposure exists, understand why it is happening and determine what can realistically be changed.
That may involve ergonomics, job redesign, worker education, equipment changes or additional assessment. Technology provides information that helps organizations decide where to focus.
Scale ergonomics across office, hybrid and remote work
Today's workforce is increasingly distributed. Office ergonomic technology allows organizations to provide support to employees working in corporate offices, home environments and hybrid arrangements. Digital tools can help scale ergonomic programs while identifying situations requiring professional intervention.
Include workforce wellbeing in the bigger picture
Physical health represents only one component of workforce health. Broader wellbeing and psychosocial factors also influence employees and organizations. Longitude6's workplace technology ecosystem allows organizations to incorporate wellbeing solutions alongside physical workplace health technologies.
Connect the strategy through Nexus6
The Longitude6 approach is built around a simple idea: Different workplace problems require different technologies.
Nexus6 provides organizations with a centralized way to access those technologies while simplifying contracts, training, support and implementation. Instead of asking organizations to adapt their workplace challenges to one technology, Longitude6 helps identify the technologies that best fit the challenge.
From Job Task Analysis and ergonomic risk assessment to functional movement, return to work, injury prevention, office ergonomics and workforce wellbeing, Longitude6 helps organizations turn workplace information into better decisions.
Build a connected workplace health strategy around the risks, people and decisions that matter most to your organization.
Frequently asked questions
What belongs in a proactive workplace health strategy?
The right mix depends on the organization, but common components include current job demands, ergonomic risk assessment, movement screening, injury prevention, return-to-work processes, office ergonomics and workforce wellbeing.
Why use multiple workplace technologies?
Different questions require different methods. Video analysis, wearables, Job Task Analysis, movement screening and office ergonomics each provide a different type of information.
How does Nexus6 fit into the strategy?
Nexus6 provides a more centralized way to access and support multiple workplace technologies while reducing the complexity of separate contracts, training and support processes.
Where should an organization start?
Start with the decision or workplace problem you need to solve, then select the assessment method and technology that best fits that use case rather than starting with a tool and looking for a problem.
Turn insight into action.
Build a connected workplace health strategy around the risks, people and decisions that matter most to your organization.