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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.
Presenter: Gary Au, CPE, Director of the Global Ergonomics Program and Canada/U.S. Disability Management at Magna International Inc.
Implementing an ergonomics or MSD prevention program can be challenging, especially with limited resources or management support. This webinar shared real‑world lessons from Magna International’s journey in building a strong, systematic ergonomics program.
This session covered:
🔹 Strategies for gaining management buy‑in
🔹 How to build an effective ergonomics committee or team
🔹 Structured approaches to hazard ID and risk assessment
🔹 Implementing solutions with measurable targets
🔹 Alignment with the MSD Prevention Guideline’s 10‑step framework
✨ Whether you’re just getting started or looking to strengthen an existing program, this webinar provides practical, actionable insights you can use right away.
Upcoming CRE-MSD Webinar - Cognitive Workload in the Workplace: Toward Integrating Mental Demand Measures into Ergonomics Assessments
- Date: April 23, 2026
- Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm EDT
- Presenter: Dr. Francesco Biondi, Associate Professor, University of Windsor
Cognitive load, the mental effort required to perform work tasks, has a powerful influence on workplace safety, performance, and overall worker well‑being. When cognitive load is too high or poorly managed, the consequences can be significant. Despite its importance, cognitive load remains difficult to measure and is often overlooked in organizational assessments.
Join us for a webinar exploring:
🔹 How non‑optimal cognitive load affects real‑world task performance
🔹 Emerging research and methods for evaluating mental demand
🔹 Insights from automotive, manufacturing, and healthcare environments
🔹 Future directions for integrating cognitive‑load measures into ergonomics practice
As science and technology evolve, understanding cognitive load will be essential for designing safer, more effective, and more human‑centered work systems.
Presenter: Dr. Emily King, Director of Research, VHA Home HealthCare
This webinar was presented in collaboration with the Centre for Research Expertise in Occupational Disease (CREOD). It introduces 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, the webinar highlights key findings and how this strategy is being adapted for use at an additional homecare provider organization.
ERGO-ROI Calculator
Demonstrating the financial value of ergonomics interventions can be challenging, particularly when decision‑makers require clear, evidence‑based justification. Cost‑benefit calculators offer an effective way to estimate potential savings, payback periods, and long‑term impacts of ergonomics solutions before implementation.
CRE-MSD is pleased to launch the ERGO‑ROI (Ergonomics Return on Investment) Calculator, a free, web‑based tool transformed from a spreadsheet format. This calculator was designed to help ergonomics practitioners quickly estimate the return on investment of workplace interventions and compare different solutions. Building on the evidence‑based framework of the Washington State Ergonomics Cost‑Benefit Calculator, this new platform integrates detailed lost‑time claim statistics from Ontario’s Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) to provide data‑driven estimates of injury‑related costs and potential reductions.
Try the ERGO-ROI Calculator today!