Employee Health Issues - What is Anti-Fatigue Matting?

Employee Health Issues - What is Anti-Fatigue Matting?

Anti-Fatigue Matting is a product that provides relief to workers who stand on their feet for long periods of time. Individuals who have jobs involving prolonged standing are at high risk for back injuries and pain.. To protect workers and relieve the fatigue and pain of standing, companies are utilizing ergonomic products like anti-fatigue matting.

What type of Worker Needs Anti-Fatigue Matting?

Workers who stand at a packing table or on an assembly line would be ideal candidates for anti-fatigue matting. Other workers that would benefit from an anti-fatigue floor mat

• Kitchen workers
• Hospital workers
• Manufacturing facilities where workers stand to perform their jobs
• Grocery clerks
• Lab Workers
• Any employee who must stand for prolonged periods of time

What are the benefits of Anti-Fatigue Mats?

• Promotes employee wellness
• Increase in productivity
• Increase in employee morale due to work place comfort.
• Reduction to exposure to prolonged cold and heat
• Reduces spinal compression
• Increases circulation.
• Ergonomically designed
• Reduction in back, leg, foot and ankle fatigue
• Reduces Back Pain

The pain, and fatigue that results from standing in one position for a long period of time can cause a strain on the back muscles. Common symptoms associated with prolonged standing on hard surface flooring include discomfort in the back, neck and shoulders and with back strain there is subsequent pain in the hands and wrists

Back pain and injuries extract an increasing toll on employers and employees. Complaints of back pain and injury are the most common and the most expensive industrial complaint and one of the most difficult muscular-skeletal injuries to resolve.

Back pain interferes with the ability of the employee to perform their daily task. In addition a worker in pain will exhibit negative personality traits to customers and other workers. By creating a positive ergonomically solution using the Anti-Fatigue Matting, workers can complete their day in comfort.

Anti-fatigue matting is an ergonomically correct flooring product that reduces the stress and fatigue on workers who must stand for inordinate amounts of time. This workers can be harmed if they are not standing correctly or too much stress is on their back.

The primary objective of ergonomic safety products is to increase the effectiveness of the human output as they interact with the man made product to produce a positive result.

The Anti-Fatigue Mat has the following features :

• Light weight
• Easy to clean
• National Floor Safety Institute approved
• Non-slip
• Non-allergenic, latex and silicone free
• Orthopedic Mats are complete with safety bevel
• All service carts can roll over mats with ease

Poor productivity, poor quality of products, and accidents can be directly attributed to human error. Human error can be traced to poor ergonomics. A recent study of 75,000 work place accidents provided the following conclusions:

• 88% of the accidents were caused by unsafe acts
• 10% were caused from unsafe conditions
• 2% were unpreventable accidents

Fatigue and back pain reduce employee moral and productivity. Pain caused by long term standing is often overlooked as a factor in lost time and productivity.

As a result, companies lose millions of dollars per in reduced productivity, increased worker compensation costs, higher insurance rates and absenteeism.

An investment in safety and ergonomic products is an investment not only in people but in the bottom line for the company.