Why not have mandatory ergonomics standards

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Question: Environmental and Industrial Safety.

- Why not have mandatory ergonomics standards?

- Include viewpoints from both employees and employers.

- Consider facts such as, many ergonomic issues are related to manual labor and repetitive assembly operations.

- Many assembly jobs are no longer done in this country, they have been shipped offshore.

- Most manual labor jobs are done by immigrants being either legal or otherwise.

- There are productivity and quality gains to be made through good ergonomics.

- There is certainly an opportunity for abuse by employees.

- Damage is to soft tissue which begs the question is there any task or job free of impact on the human body.

- Lastly, is it possible to tell the difference between soft tissue damage as a result of work-related activities verses personal activities like sports or hobbies.

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