Ergonomic tools

What are ergonomic tools for workplace ergonomics in the UK?

Healthcare professionals and employees across the UK logistics and manufacturing sectors face high physical demands during daily work activities. Pushing, pulling, and manoeuvring beds, hoists, and trolleys can exceed HSE guidelines for pushing and pulling, leading to physical strain and musculoskeletal disorders and workplace injury risks. To address these challenges, esense offers ergonomic tools that provide insight, raise awareness, and support safer working practices.

Our ergonomic tools are practical and data-driven solutions that transform workplaces into safer and healthier environments.

  • Esense Impact Analysis
  • Esense Ergometer
  • Esense ergo App
  • PowerTalk
  • Healthy working approach for patient hoists
  • Ergo-feedback on patient lifts
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Thorstein Selmer

International account manager

Esense Impact Analysis

The Esense Impact Analysis is a comprehensive tool that combines measurement results, costs, and impact, and provides insight into workplace ergonomics and manual handling risks and risk reduction opportunities. It consists of two key components:

  • Health Analysis: Gives insights in the actual work situation, considering factors relevant to HSE manual handling assessments and ISO 11228-2 and HSE pushing and pulling guidance. Also push and pull force measurements can be visualised.
  • ROI Analysis: Provides clear insight into the costs and potential return on investment of implementing an esense system.
  • Read how an industrial company saved 5,840 hours in 10 years, thanks to the Esense Impact Analysis

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Esense Impact Analysis
Esense Ergometer

Esense Ergometer

The esense Ergometer is a measuring device that attaches directly to the push bar of any mobile equipment. It measures push and pull forces in real work situations, delivering immediate and reliable feedback. This results in a measurement report:

  • Shows employee physical strain and workload exposure
  • Identifies how often HSE guidelines are exceeded
  • Highlights risks of physical overload injuries

Awareness is the first step toward prevention. With the Ergometer, risks become visible, enabling organisations to implement targeted ergonomic improvements before problems arise.

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Ergo App

The Ergo App is a Windows application that connects with any esense product. It enables live measurement of push and pull forces, supporting workplace ergonomic risk assessment in real time.

How? A tablet or laptop is connected to the product, and while using this product, a live force visualisation shows peak forces. It directly shows when force above HSE guidelines  is used while pushing or pulling. The results can be processed in the Esense Impact Analysis, helping organizations move from raw data to insights into workplace ergonomics and manual handling risks.

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Ergo App
PowerTalk

PowerTalk

PowerTalk is a user-friendly application designed to connect with esense products. It serves as a service and workplace monitoring tool, and also gives ergonomic insights:

  • Supports technical optimization of equipment
  • Collects ergonomic data such as time, distance driven, and applied push and pull forces
  • Provides valuable insights into workload and strain over time

By turning usage data into ergonomic knowledge, PowerTalk helps organizations monitor and improve safe working practices.

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ealthy working with patient hoists in the UK healthcare sector

Patient lifts are essential devices in healthcare, but they must be used ergonomically. The esense healthy working approach provides a structured, three-step method to move from the current work situation toward a healthy and safe working practice in line with HSE guidance.

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Ergo-feedback for patient hoists and lifts

Ergo-feedback for patient hoists and lifts

Ergo-feedback alerts users with blinking LEDs on the hand control, when too much force is being used. This indicates how to correctly use the powered drive assistance. The direct feedback helps users work within HSE manual handling guidelines and helps reduce physical strain and manual handling risks.

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What others say

"...rewarded for making only a small physical effort."

“The more gentle you control the lift, the easier it moves. You are rewarded for making only a small physical effort.”

Bart Brinkhuis

Bart Brinkhuis

Ergonomics coach, Liberein

“…control the lift with just a finger!”

“The days we needed our full body weight to move the patient are history. Now we control the lift with just a finger.”

Joanne Pauelsen

Joanne Pauelsen

Healthcare worker, Liberein

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