A message from the Founder

Too often, workplace injury prevention begins after pain has become normal, after a worker has learned to push through discomfort, or after a task has already caused harm. That delay has consequences. In 2024, private industry employers reported 2.5 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses in the United States, and over the 2023 to 2024 period, overexertion, repetitive motion, and bodily conditions caused the highest number of DART cases among major event categories reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS, 2026). WorkEddy was created to help change that pattern by moving prevention closer to the moment where risk first appears: the task itself.

We believe prevention should begin at the task level, where workers first experience strain, awkward posture, repetition, force, fatigue, and discomfort. NIOSH defines ergonomics as the design of work tasks and job demands to fit workers’ capabilities, with the goal of reducing and preventing musculoskeletal disorders caused by physical, psychosocial, and personal factors (CDC/NIOSH, 2024). For WorkEddy, that means prevention cannot rely only on incident reports, paper checklists, or after-the-fact documentation. It must help organizations see the task, understand the risk, listen to the worker, assign corrective action, and verify whether the work has actually improved.

WorkEddy brings task-level ergonomic risk assessment, worker feedback, corrective action tracking, follow-up review, and privacy safeguards into one prevention system. A warehouse worker repeatedly lifting, a hospital worker transferring patients, a delivery worker handling awkward loads, or a manufacturing worker repeating the same motion should not be protected only after an injury occurs. They need a system that helps safety teams identify risky task patterns, understand affected body regions, recommend controls, assign responsibility, document completion, and compare the work before and after corrective action.

What makes WorkEddy different is that it does not stop at identifying risk. It turns prevention into a visible, organized, and measurable process. A task can be captured, assessed, scored, reviewed, and connected to a corrective action plan. The platform can document what risk was found, which body regions were affected, what action was recommended, who was assigned to act, whether the action was completed, and whether follow-up review shows improvement. This matters because CDC/NIOSH describes an effective ergonomics program as a process that identifies and corrects ergonomic deficiencies, involves workers, measures effectiveness, and maintains management commitment (CDC/NIOSH Elements of Ergonomics Programs, 2024).

Over time, this creates prevention evidence that is more useful than a record of injury alone. Instead of waiting for pain reports to accumulate, employers and safety teams can track patterns such as high-risk tasks, repeated strain in a body region, delayed corrective actions, unresolved hazards, and reassessment changes following intervention. As WorkEddy pilots and implementation data grow, these measures can support case studies, safety dashboards, internal audits, and public health learning without reducing workers to numbers. WorkEddy is not technology for its own sake; it is a prevention trail that helps organizations see whether corrective action was completed, whether risk changed, and whether work was made safer.

Global implications

The need for this kind of prevention is not only organizational; it is global. WHO reports that approximately 1.71 billion people worldwide live with musculoskeletal conditions and identifies these conditions as the leading contributor to disability worldwide (WHO, 2022). ILO estimates that nearly 3 million workers die every year from work-related accidents and diseases and that 395 million workers worldwide sustain nonfatal work injuries (ILO, 2023). For WorkEddy, these global realities reinforce a practical point: preventing strain at the task level is not only a workplace safety improvement; it is part of a larger public health effort to protect workers, preserve work ability, reduce preventable disability, and make prevention visible before harm becomes permanent.

WorkEddy is also built around worker trust. Video and digital tools should never make workers feel watched, blamed, or stripped of dignity. That is why WorkEddy is designed with consent, face blurring, de-identified reporting, role-based access, and human review. These safeguards align with the broader privacy principle that organizations should identify and manage privacy risk while building products and services that protect individuals (NIST Privacy Framework). In WorkEddy, privacy is not an added feature after the platform is built. It is part of the prevention model itself.

Our promise is to help organizations see risk earlier, respond with meaningful corrective action, and verify whether the work has improved. For employers, this means a clearer path from hazard recognition to follow-through. For safety teams, it means better documentation and more consistent ergonomic review. For researchers and public health leaders, it means more structured, task-level evidence on where strain occurs and which interventions may reduce it. For workers, it means the pain they feel is not ignored, blamed on them, or treated as the cost of doing the job.

WorkEddy is not claiming that software alone can eliminate workplace injury. Safer work also requires leadership commitment, worker involvement, job redesign, staffing support, training, equipment, and accountability. What WorkEddy offers is a way to make that prevention work easier to see, organize, measure, and harder to ignore.

Treasure James DrPHc, MS, MSISD, MOSH Founder, WorkEddy