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'What's to know about Ergo?' with Kirsty Angerer
In this episode we speak to the one and only Travelling Ergonomist, Kirsty Angerer. Kirsty has worked across the globe to become an expert in her field. We delve into the disconnect between workplace ergonomics and health & wellbeing, why you should make ergo part of your business strategy, we look at the conditions that are becoming a massive problem in the modern workplace and look at ways to avoid them.
If this sounds like it would be useful to you in your business, have a listen!
Resources
Kirsty Angerer - The Travelling Ergonomist - visit Kirty's own website to see what she's up to and to get help for your workplace ergonomics
Kirsty on YouTube - check out Kirsty's video tips on how to avoid chronic injury by bringing ergonomic into your thinking both in and out of the workplace HSE Ergonomomics Tool - try out the free workplace ergonomics tool available from the Health & Safety Executive that can help you manage ergo risk
Transcript
You can read the entire show HERE Here's a taster of our discussion..... Richard: Kirsty Angerer thank you so much for coming on to the safeti podcast and to talk about ergonomics today. How are you? Kirsty: No problem thanks so much for having me .yeah great thanks. Richard: Good good. as I say thanks for coming on the show and it's great to have you know an ergonomic specialist coming on and sharing with us some information that can be shared with lots and lots of HSE professionals across the UK and beyond. So just as a means of introduction you're the traveling ergonomist as you like to be known and you put lots of great content out there to help us in terms of looking into ergonomic issues in the workplace. So how did you actually get to doing this and tell us a wee bit about your background if you don't mind. Kirsty: So I guess a bit random. So I've always been quite a sporty kid and really into sport. Played every sport you know known to mankind really at school and really into design as well. So when I