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Impact Story - A Journey of Ergonomics: Sustainability and Impact Across the Years
This story outlines the journey of an Ergonomist, Allison Stephens, and her experiences working at Ford Motor Company for 30+ years. Learn how the MSD prevention program impacted organizational culture, improved injury rates, quality, morale, and productivity, and included both reactive and proactive prevention.
Impact Story - Advancing Workplace Health & Safety with the Ontario MSD Prevention Guideline
This story highlights the impacts of Ontario Power Generation (OPG)'s musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) prevention program over a 10 year period (2007-2017). Learn how they established a systematic approach, shifted organizational culture, and developed a sustainable program.
CRE-MSD launched a new series of resources called ‘Impact Stories’ at the 2025 CRE-MSD conference.
This story highlights the impacts of Ontario Power Generation (OPG)'s musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) prevention program over a 10-year period (2007-2017), written by Lisa Beech-Hawley. Learn how the organization established a systematic approach using the MSD Prevention Guideline for Ontario, shifting organizational culture, and developing a sustainable program resulting in injury reduction.
CRE-MSD launched a new series of resources called ‘Impact stories’ at the 2025 CRE-MSD conference.
This impact story outlines the professional journey of an Ergonomist, Allison Stephens, and her experiences working at Ford Motor Company for over 30 years. The story spans from her roots as a co-op student and the first Ergonomist in the company, to her role in expanding the ergonomics program throughout the globe. Learn how the program impacted organizational culture, improved not only injury rates but quality, morale, and productivity, and evolved into a Global Ergonomics Program influencing MSD prevention through design.
View the associated 2025 conference presentation.
CRE-MSD was proud to partner with National Safety Council MSD Solutions Lab for the 2025 CRE-MSD conference to share research and practical implementation of musculoskeletal disorder (MSD) prevention strategies.
If you were unable to attend the conference, check out the CRE-MSD conference page for recorded talks and resources.
Three new vibration posters were created in collaboration with the Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH). There are three posters in the series:
- Vibration: General
- Hand-Arm Vibration: Awareness (Symptoms and Exposures)
- Hand-Arm Vibration: Management (Risk Assessment and Controls)
Find all current and upcoming vibration-related posters in the vibration section of the website.