The workers of this major American employer have the ergonomically stressful repetitive motion concerns associated with high levels of material handling and the assembly line tasks found in the meat and poultry processing industries. Job enlargement combines several individual jobs that use different muscles and positions.
Job rotation takes a person from one job to another that had different physical requirements.
This major American employer's ergonomics program has not only produced a continuous reduction in workers compensation costs, but enabled their workers to be more productive and produce increasingly higher quality levels by not working to overcome difficulties inherent in their jobs.