Overexertion Injuries: Why Haven’t We Solved This?
Board members from the Board of Certifying Professional Ergonomics (BCPE) team recently attended the National Safety Council Safety Congress & Expo in Indianapolis, where OSHA released its annual Top 10 Workplace Safety Violations for 2026 and NSC shared new analysis connecting those violations to injury and fatality data. As expected, the discussion focused on familiar hazards such as fall protection, lockout/tagout, ladders, machine guarding, and hazard communication. These same categories continue to appear year after year, highlighting workplace risks that organizations still struggle to control. But one finding stood out to us. The National Safety Council's analysis reported 946,290 DART [...]