What Does Advanced Ergonomics Ergonomics Consulting Include?

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Advanced Ergonomics consulting covers three core services: job hazard analysis, risk assessment, and Ergonomics Program development. All services are performed by Certified Professional Ergonomists and are designed to conform to OSHA and NIOSH guidelines. Employers typically use this consulting to reduce injuries, lower workers' compensation costs, and cut lost work days.

The Three Core Consulting Services

The site describes the consulting offering as encompassing:

  • Job hazard analysis — identifying hazards in how work is actually performed
  • Risk assessment — evaluating the risk those hazards create
  • Ergonomics Program development — building an ongoing program rather than a one-off review

These are presented as a connected set. A hazard analysis feeds the risk assessment, and both inform the program you build.

Who Performs the Work

All consulting services are performed by Certified Professional Ergonomists. This matters if you need internal or external review of your findings, since the credential signals a recognized standard of practice.

What Standards the Services Follow

The consulting services are designed to conform to OSHA and NIOSH guidelines. If your organization already frames its safety work around those standards, the deliverables should fit into that structure rather than requiring a separate framework.

What the Consulting Is Meant to Achieve

The site ties consulting to four outcomes it also applies to its physical abilities testing work:

Goal Stated result
Injury reduction Averaging 47% decrease for new hires
Cost reduction Up to 80% decrease in total claims costs
Lost time reduction Up to 78% decrease in lost work days
Turnover reduction Up to 21% decrease in annual hiring

These figures are the company's own reported averages, not guarantees for a specific employer. Treat them as the vendor's track record rather than a projection for your site.

Where Consulting Fits Alongside Other Services

Advanced Ergonomics lists three service lines. Consulting is one of them:

  1. Physical Ability Testing — a testing program designed to comply with EEOC and ADA guidelines, validated through prospective validation studies
  2. Ergonomics Consulting — job hazard analysis, risk assessment, and program development
  3. Detailed Job Descriptions — physical demands analysis used to build job descriptions that accurately detail physical requirements

If your goal is accurate job descriptions, the physical demands analysis under the job description service is the relevant piece. If your goal is reducing injury risk in existing roles, consulting is the starting point.

Deciding Whether This Fits Your Situation

Choose consulting if you need an outside, credentialed assessment of job hazards and risks, or if you need to stand up a formal ergonomics program aligned to OSHA and NIOSH.

Consider the physical abilities testing line instead if your problem is matching candidates to the physical demands of a job — the site reports that up to 62% of job candidates do not have the fitness level to safely meet the average endurance or work intensity requirement of a job, based on its own studies.

The company states over 30 years of experience, over 1 million tests performed, and more than 100,000 hours of energy expenditure data collected from onsite analysis at over 1,000 employer locations. Those numbers describe scale and history; they don't tell you what a specific engagement will cost or how long it will take, and the site provides no pricing information.

To move forward, the practical next step is to define which of the three services matches your problem — hazard and risk review, program build-out, or job description accuracy — and ask for a scoped proposal, since scope and deliverables are not published.