Case Study 3 : Workplace Environment And Ergonomics Question 1: Deere and Company 1. Deere and Company manufactures farm equipment that perform a number of manual jobs that involve heavy objects that this matter has resulted in many workers experiencing health problems. It also caused a lot of losses to the company since their employees are waited are unabled to do their work with efficiently due to their health problems. As a solution to these problems, Deere and Company has done some ways to avoid things like this from happen again such as they redesigned the workstations so that they did not have to bend or kneel. They also change their hand tools to save the workers from work strains and installed a hoist at the assembly line for lifting of the lawn mower decks. Benefits of these ergonomics initiatives is that it can reduced exposure of the workers to back injury risks. It also inceased their e...
