Ergonomics

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Partnering with You

Our purpose is to help develop effective worksite based programs and strategies to decrease the occurrence of musculoskeletal work related disorders. Ergo Consultants partner with both your internal Management/Employee Team as well as with your Regional CIS Risk Management Consultant and CIS Claims Team Examiner to implement services that will help you control MSD related claims costs.

CIS Ergo Team services are provided to your entity as part of your CIS workers’ compensation insurance plan.

Philosophy

CIS takes a “whole person” approach with ergonomics. Ergonomics is defined as “fitting the work to the worker”. At CIS, we believe in partnering with you in every way possible to build effective employee-driven ergo safe work practices into your every day work culture to promote employee health, safety, and comfort on a “24-hour a day” basis.

If you participate in one of our CIS Employee Benefits Health Plans, then you and your employees also have access to our CIS Healthy Benefits program offerings. At CIS, we are able to help you integrate these offerings under a safety and health umbrella. As a CIS health plan member, you and your employees also have access to our CIS sponsored Employee Assistance Program (EAP) EASE.
If you participate in our CIS Liability Pool, Ergo Consultants are able to integrate ergonomic solutions in partnership with you and your CIS Liability Claims Team and our CIS Pre-Loss Legal Team.
If you participate in our CIS Workers’ Compensation Pool, then we are able to work creatively with your CIS Claims Examiner to minimize claims costs for you and enhance the health, well-being, and safe return to work for the injured employee.

Risk Management/Ergonomics

Discover great worksite resources, including general worksite stretching, office ergonomics: set-up guidelines and stretches, and a back exercise program.

Click here for a brief overview and "how to" information for each one.

Ergonomics & Budgets

Myth:	Ergonomics is expensive.
Truth:	The average office ergonomic modification costs less than $250.00, whereas the average cost to process an 801 injury report form is $350.00. Data taken from Oregon Department of Consumer & Business Services.

The old risk management cliché, “the best claim is a claim that never happens,” is certainly true in ergonomics. A pro-active employee-driven ergonomic program prevents many soft tissue MSD’s from ever becoming either a workers’ compensation or medical claim.

Services & Solutions

At CIS, we help you implement prevention and risk management strategies that are effective in decreasing workers’ compensation claims costs, associated dollars spent on unproductive time away from work, and claims costs that could be associated with an ADA or fitness for duty employment claim.

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