Modern Ergonomic Office Furniture FAQ

Question: What is modern ergonomic furniture solutions, and how does it benefit a company?

Answer: Modern ergonomic furniture solutions combine health and wellness together with aesthetics and function so a space looks and feels great to work in.

Question: What states do you serve in the U.S.?

Answer: Pacific Ergonomics provides business furniture, and office furniture all over the U.S. with design, space planning and installation services to corporate and corporate-sponsored home office programs.

Question: Can ergonomic furniture solutions reduce workplace injuries?

Answer: Absolutely. With almost 40% of all workplace injuries being related to ergonomics, this can be a drastic difference.

Question: Why does modern ergonomics also ensure that solutions are attractive and functional?

Answer: For years, ergonomic solutions only met the health requirements. The problem with this is people feel good also having beautiful things around them, that are also comfortable. Now, there is no need to sacrifice form or function.

Question: What are the long-term cost benefits of investing in ergonomic furniture?
Answer: So often, companies will purchase office furniture because it is attractive from another dealer. Not too long after that, we start getting calls to do ergonomic assessments because employees are not comfortable. Then claims start, and new furniture is purchased to replace the new furniture.

Answer:  If modern ergonomic furniture is purchased in the first place, companies won’t have to purchase it twice. Also, employees feel better working, injuries are prevented, productivity is increased and sick days go down.

Question: What types of services do you offer so our company can get an audit of the status and quality o four office furniture solutions?

Answer: Pacific Ergonomics offers a service to do a product audit. This will identify potential risks with your equipment and solutions to reduce that risk.
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Ergonomic Assessments FAQ

Question: Can Pacific Ergonomics provide turnkey service from the ergonomic assessment, procurement, ordering the products, installation and follow-up?
Answer: Yes we can. This helps employees in discomfort get help faster and saves much time for procurement, EHS, managers and HR.

Question: Is it a good idea to provide ergonomic assessments for employees at home?
Answer: If employees are working at home full time, yes. If executives could see how people work at home and understand the risks that puts them in, every home office worker would receive an ergonomic assessment.

Question: If an employee works at home a few days and in the office a few days, would they need one or two assessments?
Answer: They are totally different areas, and would need two assessments.

Question: What industries to you provide ergonomic evaluations for?
Answer: Our team has certified ergonomists who specialize in office, laboratories, healthcare, and industrial manufacturing.

Question: How are your ergonomic team’s solutions different? 
Answer: Our team of ergonomists not only have years of experience with ergonomics, are certified, but we are also ergonomic product experts. That means we can uncover the risks and provide specific recommendations that are configured correctly to reduce risk. Turn key service speeds up the time that employees are helped and saves time and money. 

Question: How effective are virtual ergonomic assessments?

Answer: Very effective. It saves employees time and the employer time on all levels. It is the fastest way to help an employee and we have a totally streamlined process that is unique in the industry to make this a success. 

Question: Scheduling ergonomic assessments is so time consuming for our team? Do you have solutions to save us time and enable us to help our employees faster? 

Answer: Yes. Our unique approach with custom developed software and solutions makes this a very effective approach for streamlining the entire scheduling process. All the supervisor has to do is add the employee request to our system and everything else is automated.

Question: Do you add personalized training with your ergonomic assessment?

Answer: Yes we do. One of the reasons we are able to do this is we don’t spend time on the assessment asking questions that we can get in advance. It is hands-on, non-invasive, and easy to schedule and our systems can get all of the basic questions answered in advance of the assessment so quality time is spent while on the call.

Question: How do virtual ergonomic assessments save companies money? 

Answer: There are many cost saving factors.   Time is saved in scheduling. The cost of the assessment is less then an on-site and there is no travel costs. It also saves companies money, is scheduled much faster, and can easily scale to multiple locations, homes and hybrid workforces.

Question: What is the best way to scale an ergonomic program all over the country including home offices and multiple corporate offices? 

Answer: An integrated ergonomic virtual program with a software catalog is the ideal solution. It can be scaled anywhere in the U.S., including installation services. 

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Space Planning and Design: 

Question: Do you offer virtual space planning and design services?
Answer: Yes we do. If you have the CAD plan of your space, we can provide the optimal layout to support your goals, to meet code, and to have a space be usable and ergonomic.

Question: If we don’t have a CAD plan of our space, what then?
Answer: Our team can create a CAD plan of your space with the design solutions.

Question: How are ergonomic principles included in design and space planning?

Answer: Spaces have to look code, feel good and be functional for the client’s needs. We incorporate principles of design, feng shui and ergonomics together so spaces feel great, look great, serve functional needs, and are healthy to work in. 

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Procurement FAQ for City, State, Non Profits and Schools

Question:
Do you have procurement contracts for education, city, state, government and non-profits?

Answer: 
Yes, almost all of our office furniture and business furniture solutions are available either through Omnia or Tips. We also support GSA for many of our products and CMAS in California.