“The thing that was hurting our people the most was the human body’s complete unwillingness to do a task 400 times without sending in a complaint.”
— Mike Day, Director of Global Safety and Occupational Health, Baxter International Inc.
Understanding the relationship between people and the work they perform is at the heart of ergonomics.
AI-powered movement analysis is giving EHS teams new ways to make that understanding more actionable.
In practice that looks like:
A factory supervisor quickly identifying higher-risk movements across workstations and analyzing individual tasks in greater detail.
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Turning that information into opportunities for improvement and using before-and-after assessments to measure whether those changes reduced risk.
Baxter’s experience with this approach:
• 62% faster ergonomic assessments
• 100+ assessments in the first 60 days
• Learnings scaled across 160 sites in 26 countries
Because ultimately, better understanding of the work means a better opportunity to protect the people doing it.
