WORK-RELATED
MUSCULOSKELETAL DISORDER (MSD)
- In Europe, 60% of workers suffer from work-related health issues such as pain in the shoulders or the back.
- The burden of Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) is a major global problem, and MSDs related costs are estimated around several percent of many developed countries’ Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
- With the increasing retirement age in many countries, the prevention of MSD’s gets even more critical. Major risk factors are frequent exposure to adverse postures, repetitive movements of the back and upper limbs and heavy manual handling. Small companies, e.g., hairdressers, as well as more prominent companies, e.g., vehicle manufacturers, are all having personnel running a high risk to develop MSD.
- The high costs for MSD related absences and for recruiting and training replacement personnel are creating strong incentives for MSD prevention actions.
- Another typically hidden cost is the quality loss and reduced productivity.
Workers suffering from work-realted health issues
60%
Musculoskeletal Disorders in occupation diseases
45%
Absenses more than 3 days
50%
Permanent Incaabilities
60%
ERGONOMIC RISK ASSESSMENT
MSDs can be prevented by reducing the risk factors and in particular exposure to adverse postures, repetitive movements, and using high muscle force.
The gold standard today is manual observations performed by specially trained ergonomists. The observations typically only last a few minutes per worker, where the workers tend to show their best technique. It can be entirely subjective, there is no use of objective data, and it is expensive due to the one-to-one interaction.
Rapid Movements
Bad Posture
High Force
WERGONIC SOLUTION
Wergonic is offering a Virtual Ergonomic Coach for all workers in their pocket; a coach who knows worker’s working habits and guides the workers and allows the employer to monitor the risk exposure and prevent injuries and sickness.
Unlike human observations and coaching, our solution is precise, reliable, personalized, and holistic including measurement, analysis, and recommendations. Our solution is part of workwear without a dramatic change of customers existing procurement and maintenance procedures of workwear and is not disturbing the work. The data analysis by Wergonic solution enables worker’s personalization, continuous monitoring of workers, work stations, and working teams.
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Products and services
Wergonic Digital Ergonomic Solutions are based on wearable sensors as part of workwear, mobile phone, and cloud ergonomic analysis platform which enables objective ergonomic risk assessment, work-technique training for prevention of musculoskeletal disorders.
Wergonic Assess
A digital risk assessment tool that targets ergonomists and safety experts in occupational services and ergonomic units of companies. The workwear will be worn during the assessment
Wergonic Assess
Beta version of Wergonic Assess is available for a few early adopters.
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Wergonic Trainer
Wergonic Train is a work-technique training tool for training the workers by giving immediate feedback on their working habits to reduce the risk. The workwear will be worn during the training
Wergonic Train
Beta version of Wergonic Train is available for a few early adopters.
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LATEST NEWS
Shipping of our 1st customers
The summer holidays in Sweden are over, and we at Wergonic are shipping the first sets of our risk assessment packages to customers. Demand for the first batch of workwear shirts has exceeded our expectations for our soft launch. 2nd batch is on the way!
1st batch of Wergonic T-Shirts
We at Wergonic are excited to receive the 1st batch of our T-shirts and have our 1st version of the Risk Assessment App ready, looking forward to delivering our systems to our customers soon!We wish everyone a lovely summer.
Wergonic is part of STING
Today we have joined the STING by enrolling Incubate program 2021. Sting is the leading ecosystem in the Nordics for startups with high growth potential. We are very proud to be part of STING which enables us to grow faster!
