The Job Screen assessment tool measures each primary ergonomic risk factor for each primary body segment and returns a job-level score. This job-level score is then categorized into Low, Moderate, High, or Very High risk.

This report returns the percentage of jobs at your worksite at Low, Moderate, High, Very High, and Unknown (TBD) risk and answers the question: How much risk is present at my worksite and how is that changing over time?

If you are just getting started with ergonomics, you'll start with 100% of jobs at Unknown risk and will be working your way toward the ideal state of 100% of jobs at Low risk. This would mean that you've assessed each job at your worksite and each job is in the Low risk category.

As you proactively conduct ergonomic risk assessments, you will inevitably identify tasks that are outside recommended risk thresholds. These tasks are improvement opportunities that should enter a workplace improvement process that includes an improvement project being scheduled and completed.

This report provides a breakdown of opportunities identified, improvement projects scheduled, and improvement projects completed. It tells you how many opportunities you've identified and how well your team is doing at scheduling and completing improvement projects for those opportunities.

The goal of ergonomics isn't assessments: it's improvements! You will typically see the bar continue to grow as you identify improvement opportunities. Improvements Scheduled and Improvements Completed should start to fill up the bar as your program matures and you are able to schedule and complete improvement projects.

The total number of Job Screens that were completed during the selected time period.

The total percentage of jobs at your worksite assessed for risk. A job is considered assessed when a Job Screen or QEC assessment has been completed.

The total number of improvement projects that were scheduled during the time period. Note: this does not mean they were scheduled to be completed in that month, but that they were moved to the "Scheduled" column on the kanban board in that month. This is a measure of how projects move from the Ideas column to the Scheduled column.

The total number of improvement projects that were completed during the selected time period.

The "Discomfort Summary" report tracks new reports of discomfort by month, broken down by Possibly Work-Related and Non Work-Related. You can use it to see how reports of discomfort are trending over time.

The total number of documented interactions with working athletes during the time period.

The total number of medical referrals that were made during the selected time period.

A breakdown of early discomfort cases that resolve with or without a referral to medical care.

While no cost avoidance methodology is perfect, we've tried to keep ours simple to understand, conservative in practice, and based on credible cost information on musculoskeletal disorders.

As stated above, "Each possibly-work-related early report that resolves successfully is estimated to avoid $7,318 in costs associated with the potential injury." This figure is based on the following assumptions:

- The average total cost of a musculoskeletal disorder is $73,185 (based on OSHA's Safety Pays Calculator)

- 10% of early discomfort reports would have become OSHA recordable without early intervention. (a conservative estimate)

The following is OSHA's Background of Cost Estimates:
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"The average claim cost estimates are provided by National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. (NCCI). The data reflects the average cost of lost time workers' compensation insurance claims derived from unit statistical reports submitted to NCCI for policy years 2013-2015.

NCCI makes no guarantees nor assumes any responsibility for the accuracy of or any results obtained through the use of the NCCI data provided through this tool. NCCI's information and data may not be used or copied in any manner excepted as provided in conjunction with the OSHA website tool, "$afety Pays."

The National Council on Compensation Insurance, Inc. manages the nation's largest database of workers compensation insurance information. NCCI analyzes industry trends, prepares workers compensation insurance rate recommendations, determines the cost of proposed legislation, and provides a variety of services and tools to maintain a healthy workers compensation system.

The indirect cost estimates provided in this program are taken from the Business Roundtable publication, Improving Construction Safety Performance, and are based on a study conducted by the Stanford University Department of Civil Engineering. The magnitude of indirect costs is inversely related to the seriousness of the injury. The less serious the injury the higher the ratio of indirect costs to direct costs. While they may account for the majority of the true costs of an accident, indirect costs are usually uninsured and therefore, unrecoverable. The indirect cost multipliers used in $afety Pays are general estimates based on the limited research on this issue. The indirect cost multiplier will vary depending on an employer's unique circumstances.

These estimates include the following kinds of indirect costs:

Some of the possible kinds of indirect costs not included in these estimates are:

A breakdown of early discomfort cases reported as Possible Work-Related vs. Non Work-Related.

The "Reports by Body Segment" report tells you exactly that. It is a breakdown of early reports of discomfort by body part.

You can use this report to identify trends, create industrial athlete training programs and reminders, and decide where to focus your ergonomics efforts.