Canadian industry is headed towards a labor force crisis that will surely require crucial changes in the entire national paradigm. The workforce is not only declining in figures, it is becoming progressively more multicultural. Even more demanding is the fact that employees now entering the labor force anticipate greater dare and superior rewards from their jobs than their forerunners. Experts warned that enduring solutions to the pending workforce emergency will require Canadian industry to fine-tune its attitude toward its workers and develop new agendas to protect the health and safety of that staff.

The implementation of ergonomic practices and setting up of ergonomic equipment could become a great tool in industry's struggle to magnetize and maintain a viable labor force. Industrial ergonomic service and numerous equipments can actually enhance business operations which ultimately improve productivity, waste reduction, quality control and most significantly safety of employees. It has been observed that various companies fail to recognize the worth of ergonomics because they misunderstand the theory and the potential application to their business.

Industrial ergonomics assessment helps in taking a human-centered loom to task and tool design. It recognizes disparities in the individual uniqueness and competence of human resources and strives to put up those variables into the design of tools and the structuring of everyday jobs. In effect, ergonomics works to fit the mission or equipment to the employee as an alternative of unenlightened approach of forcing the employee to try and become accustomed to the task. The goal of such training is to prevent soft tissue, recurring motion, repetitive stress and musculoskeletal wounds. Nearly half of all lost work days can be accredited to musculoskeletal injuries.

In formulating an industrial ergonomics training program, tasks, tools and the work setting should be evaluated for the following factors:

1. Angle and amount of force applied during job performance

2. Velocity of movement required to complete task

3. Fatiguing and awkward postures needed during the performance of a task

4. Frequency or repetition of job

5. Overall duration of work and number of times per day the same task in performed

6. Contact pressure that is required to be maintained during the performance of work

7. Factors present in the work environment which include temperature, noise, light, radiation and many more

The goal of ergonomics is to eradicate the uneasiness and anxiety from the workers. Studies prove that execution of an ergonomic program results in major reduction in workplace injury rates and associated expenses, decreases in lost man-hours and non-attendance and a noticeable improvement in employee job satisfaction. With a universal one-year turnaround on investment recovery, the implementation of a all-inclusive ergonomics program could be the most cost-effective answer to Canadian industry's intimidating labor force crisis.