The Business of Ergonomics Podcast

Welcome to the Business of Ergonomics Podcast! In this episode, you'll hear how Accelerate Member, Elsa Escobedo-Lopez is moving forward with her ergonomics consulting business! You'll learn insights with the ergonomics industry, upcoming trends, how to handle challenging consulting scenarios, and how Elsa shares her passion to elevate business in her community! Elsa combines her extensi...

What does the future hold for office work? As Ergonomics Consultants we want to optimize how people are working - no matter where they are working. Join Darcie as she walks you through what the latest research release from the World Economic Forum is saying about Returning-to-Work from the Covid pandemic. You'll find out the statistics about: if employees are looking forward to return to the...

Today Darcie shares why and how you should be leveraging the power of your website. Do you have a webpage? Great. Are you actively collecting leads? Wait. You're not? My friend, it's a huge opportunity that EVERY Ergonomics Consultant should be leveraging to reach the MOST and help the MOST amount of people in your community. Learn the 3 simple techniques to put into play today in your w...

Let's dive into this idea about The Great Resignation: How employers drove workers to quit.  The Great Resignation is an emerging theme from the pandemic where employees are leaving the workforce or switching jobs in droves. For many, employers have played a big part in why they're walking away.  In this episode you'll learn why the Great Resignation is useful to us as Ergonomics Co...

Welcome to another episode of the Business of Ergonomics Podcast! Today's episode is a continuation of Episode 71. So, how can we as Ergonomics Professionals help our clients the most and offer solutions to common ergonomics situations? Well I believe it's our ability to DO the actual ergonomics assessment! There's so many misconceptions about ergonomics being expensive or complex t...

Welcome to the Business Of Ergonomics Podcast! In today's episode you'll hear about simple and low-cost solutions to address the most common ergonomics challenges in the office. Have you heard from clients that they hesitate from ergonomics because of the cost of solutions. Use this episode as proof that effective ergonomics doesn't rely on expensive equipment to get the end result...

Welcome to another episode of The Business of Ergonomics podcast! Today we're talking about Ergonomics and Return-to-Work. As experts in Human Capability, Ergonomics Consultants can add-value for the employer with complex return-to-work cases, specifically with Functional Abilities and a safe process. Today's episode was inspired from this document from the Institute for Work & Healt...

Welcome to another episode of The Business of Ergonomics podcast! In this episode we talk about Functional Accommodations... is this something that your community needs to be having? Well the foundation to all of our services that we offer is communicating it (aka marketing) so that our network, prospects, and clients know that we are offering these types of services. We're talking about the...

Welcome to another episode of the Business of Ergonomics podcast. In today's episode Darcie is talking about Seasons of Business. This is a natural analogy that can help is navigate what aspect of business that we are currently in and where we want to go. Darcie shares what these different seasons mean - Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter and how, as business owners (and people interested in pe...

In today's episode I'm interviewing Sarah Zera of Moxie OT and the Moxie OT Podcast.  We chat about the "research lag" and how to optimize this, trends in the industry to be aware of, and some client cases that will inspire you! To learn more about the Accelerate program head to www.ergonomicshelp.com/learn-ergo. To get in contact with Sarah head to Moxie OT and the Moxie OT Po...

Welcome to another episode of the Business of Ergonomics Podcast! Today, Darcie shares why starting just with office ergonomic assessments is an excellent way to build expertise in the field. There's so many reasons why! Find out if any of these resonates with you - either as a part-time hustle or taking your full attention, with full-time resources dedicated to fulfilling and marketing. It i...

In today's episode we're talking about your potentially new favorite service deliverable... Participatory Ergonomics! Have you heard of this before? It's when you support Businesses develop their own in-house ergonomics team, with of course the help from you. These teams can be very effective because it can accelerate  change because of the cross-functional design of Participatory E...

In this episode Darcie highlights the roles of Workers' Compensation, the Occupational Safety & Health Act, and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Understanding the roles and responsibilities of each of these is very useful in our Marketing and Education campaigns because simply put Employers tend to not have the time (or awareness) to fully appreciate and implemen...

Welcome to this podcast where Darcie talks to you about compliance in ergonomics assessments and why it's so important (but often not talked about) to getting your clients AMAZING results. Darcie shares key indicators to success, how to position ergonomics, who to talk to in an organization, and a simple method to improve compliance to behavioural based ergonomics solutions. To get on the wai...

Welcome to Episode 61 of the Business of Ergonomics Podcast! Today's a very special episode because Matthew Hopper is our guest. Matt's a Customer Experience Expert and today he'll be sharing the value of client retention and why it's never been as important as it is today. By listening to today's episode you'll get major insights on how to position your company to wi...

In today's episode Darcie shares the foundation of mental workload evaluation and 3 of the most popular tools to use. If you're a more visual reader, head to the blog to see the mental workload graphic in detail here: https://www.ergonomicshelp.com/blog/mental-workload-its-foundation-and-measurement Be the first to be notified when Accelerate opens for enrollment next, just head to www.e...

In this episode Darcie shares tips that she's used during ergonomic risk assessments for industry. These can give you insight if you're considering adding this to your services! Join the waitlist to Accelerate now just by heading to www.ergonomicshelp.com/learn-ergo If you're a healthcare professional and this episode got your wheels turning about office ergonomics - good. I've...

Today Darcie shares the general principles of seat design. Listen today to find out why lumbar lordosis should be one of your top priorities when recommending chairs to our clients, why minimizing disc pressure is so important, and why we want to look for minimizing the static loading of the back muscles. Not only that, Darcie dives into some of those "trendy" active sitting chairs and w...

I’m so excited to be bringing Angela MacDonald on today’s podcast. Angela combines her business and accounting background to help small businesses grow to the next level. From her experience in corporate finance, managing multi-million dollar projects and being senior management responsible for a ten million dollar budget, financial reporting, budget management, forecasting and strategic planning....

Welcome to another episode of the business of ergonomics podcast! In today's episode I'm sharing a simple sales tip that I've found to be oh-so-useful. You can listen and put these into play the next time you chat with a prospect or want to close one of your amazing ergonomics offers. In other news Accelerate opens for enrollment at the end of June 2021. To join the waitlist head he...

Welcome to Part 2 of the Other "Non-Ergonomic" Services You Can Offer. If you haven't yet caught the episode about the Client Journey related to the types of services available, be sure to check that out. In this episode Darcie shares the specifics of Functional Capacities Evaluation, Physical Demands Analysis, Job Matches, Accommodations, and Post Offer Employment Tests. These serv...

Ergonomics has traditionally been thought of ONLY identifying the risk and making modifications to that job. Not what that person is or isn’t capable of. And I think that there’s immense value in that. What I want to talk about today is the customer journey. Our potential customers can be in various stages of readiness for our services. Sometimes before they are ready of office or industrial ergon...

Welcome to another episode of the Business of Ergonomics Podcast. In this episode we talk about how school sets you up to be an employee, not how to effectively build and grow an ergonomics consulting business. Darcie also shares what she's noticed successful Ergonomics Consultants are doing - "success leaves clues". To find out how others are getting started with ergonomics head he...

In today's episode Darcie is speaking with Sandi Danilowitz of The Health Engine. Sandi has been in the health and wellness industry for almost 20 years. We chat about the various types of services that you could be offering clients, how she got started in ergonomics, and what the future trends are for the industry. You can reach Sandi here: sandi@thehealthengine.com. Discover how Sandi and o...

There's a long established link between the highest reported discomfort and the most sedentary positions. Did you know that those who work in office jobs usually reported more discomfort when compared to other jobs that are more physically active? Wow! One way you can limit discomfort is to limit the amount of prolonged sedentary activity by incorporating some movement into the day.  Listen t...