Solutions
Line-by-line assessment, with controls that move up the hierarchy.
- Sector
- Manufacturing
- Primary risk
- Repetitive line load
- Standards
- Safe Work Australia · OSHA · ISO 11228-1
The MSD challenge in manufacturing
The risk where this work actually happens.
Repetitive tasks, fixed lines and high throughput concentrate musculoskeletal load. The question is rarely whether there's risk — it's which task, and what control will actually reduce it.
How Etiscope supports manufacturing
Evidence in, prevention out.
Assess every line task objectively and consistently.
Surface the dominant factor so controls start with elimination and engineering — not behaviour change.
Validate each control with a directly comparable pre/post score.
Track trends across lines and shifts over time.
In practice
Visy Glass marked a full year with zero time-lost injuries in July 2023.
After implementing a comprehensive WMSD program targeting hazard elimination — informed by Etiscope assessments — Visy Glass achieved a full year with zero injuries requiring time away from work, marked in July 2023. Assessment evidence directing controls toward the top of the hierarchy is the approach Etiscope is built to support.