User requirements matter in specifications
Naturally, you will search carefully before making a financial decision about investing in new equipment, furniture and handtools.
Managers commonly look for detailed and reliable evaluations of the expected return before putting their signatures to such an investment.
What is deceptively easy to overlook is evidence on how useable the products you are considering area.
Without gathering information obout the physical attributes of users to whom you intend to allocate the products, you risk obliging them to risk cumulative physical traumas - as well as the kinds of errors of distraction and compensation they give rise to.
Separating wheat from chaff
Without reliable criteria for assesing the reliability of technically attraactive products, you may well face difficulty in reaching a consesnsus about them. The market for 'ergonomic' products is cluttered and confusing with thousands of manufacturers claiming to have the ultimate product to meet your needs.
We have experience of designing simple feasibility trials to stimulate thinking about investments in new equipment, furnitue and handtools, so you can build a consensus amongst management, before it's too late.
