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Impact Story - A Journey of Ergonomics: Sustainability and Impact Across the Years
This story outlines the journey of an Ergonomist, Allison Stephens, and her experiences working at Ford Motor Company for 30+ years. Learn how the MSD prevention program impacted organizational culture, improved injury rates, quality, morale, and productivity, and included both reactive and proactive prevention.
Impact Story - Advancing Workplace Health & Safety with the Ontario MSD Prevention Guideline
This story highlights the impacts of Ontario Power Generation (OPG)'s musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) prevention program over a 10 year period (2007-2017). Learn how they established a systematic approach, shifted organizational culture, and developed a sustainable program.
Upcoming CRE-MSD Webinar - Client Handling Program Resources: A Canadian Scan
- Date: March 10, 2026
- Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT
- Presenters:
- Sherri Bastos, Director, Health, Safety and Wellbeing - Health and Community Care, PSHSA
- Sandra Excellent, CRSP, CCPE, Health and Safety Consultant, PSHSA
Join CRE-MSD and the Public Services Health & Safety Association (PSHSA) for a webinar exploring program resources that support client handling across select Canadian provinces. Building on two webinars delivered earlier in 2025, The Landscape of Safe Patient Handling and Mobility Regulation Across the United States: Trends and Gaps and The Minnesota Safe Patient Handling Statute, this webinar shifts the focus to Canadian contexts.
This webinar will share an overview of Canadian client-handling programs, approaches, key content areas, and available tools. Participants will also have the opportunity to highlight their own program gaps and needs, helping to inform future resource development for Ontario.
Upcoming CRE-MSD Webinar: Workplace Violence and Harassment Reporting and Response Strategy for Home and Community Care Organizations
- Date: February 10, 2026
- Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm EST
- Presenter: Dr. Emily King, Director of Research, VHA Home HealthCare
This webinar is presented in collaboration with the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease (CREOD). It will introduce VHA Home HealthCare’s new strategy to improve reporting and organizational responses. The strategy combines education, rapid in-workflow reporting, and a relationship-focused, trauma- and violence-informed approach for supervisors. Drawing on evaluations of more than a year of use with over 1,500 personal support workers and extensive evaluation, it will highlight key findings and how this strategy is being adapted for use at an additional homecare provider organization.
The OHCOW RSI Day webinar series is back for four sessions that will run February 6, 13, 20, and 27 from 10am-12pm EST. Learn about a range of MSD prevention topics including From Pixels to Prevention: How AI is Changing Ergonomic Assessment presented by CRE-MSD's Associate Director of Research, Dr. Steven Fischer on February 20th.
View the full agenda on OHCOW's RSI Day event page to learn more about the topics that are covered each week, and register for the event. Registration is required to attend.
Chiropractors, physiotherapists, and massage therapists are examples of regulated health professionals who use manual therapy as one strategy in the rehabilitation of people suffering with musculoskeletal disorders (MSD). Unfortunately, the physical demands imposed on these healthcare workers by performing manual therapy often leads them to experiencing the same musculoskeletal issues that they help to manage.
This webinar will cover the results of two CRE-MSD-funded research projects. Collectively, these projects explored the nature of MSD in chiropractors and the biomechanics of performing spinal manipulative therapy, a type of manual therapy that is commonly used in the rehabilitation of people with MSD of the spine. The findings are directly relevant to practicing clinicians, educators who teach manual therapy skills, and researchers who are interested in alleviating the burden of MSD in healthcare professionals.