“Listening to clients is the most important tool of an Ergonomist. I understand ergonomics, but you are the experts in your business. It would be too easy for me to dictate changes that will reduce ergonomic risk factors, but if they don’...

“My basic belief concerning safety management is that it is always a work in-progress. It is one thing to write and implement a safety program, but a company needs to review and update their program regularly to keep it relevant to the workplac...

“My interest in injury prevention was born at an early age when my father sustained a career ending injury while working on the family farm. I was able to experience first- hand the impact an occupational injury has on the individual, family, a...

"Properly identifying loss sources and putting together a strong, effective action plan is the best way to reduce losses and the cost of workers’ compensation.  My goal is to work with each client to create a strong effective action plan a...

“My experience in healthcare, as well as health and wellness, has helped me develop a valuable skillset to assess injuries, identify factors that led to those injuries, and provide solutions to mitigate injury risk and optimize performance for ...

 “My mission is to assist the client in developing a strategic plan to eliminate sources of loss and to ensure that workers go home in the same condition as they arrived in. In doing so I make it my responsibility to understand my clients'...

"Every day I work with employers to show that safety and productivity are not opposing forces. In the end it takes much less time to do things right than it takes to explain why things went wrong. If you just depend on ‘common sense’ for ...

“By asking the right questions, assessing the current situation, and providing appropriate resources and assistance, we can help any policyholder reduce their total claims and workers’ compensation costs. It’s fun to be a part of th...

“My father was a safety manager at a rayon manufacturing plant in the early 1960s, several years before the advent of OSHA. He took the challenge of preventing significant injuries personally, and at the time they were very common. My mother ob...

“Working safely isn’t always about you—it’s also about the people you work with. If you have the courage to say something to a co-worker who is engaged in an unsafe act or to a manager who is asking you to perform a task that ...