No Standard, Still Liable: 5 Ergonomics Misconceptions That Are Costing Your Clients Money

"We don't have to do this. There's no law that says we have to do ergonomics."

"We're already covered. We bought good chairs."

Sound familiar? These are the two most common objections ergonomics consultants hear from potential clients. And both of them reflect a regulatory picture that most businesses have completely wrong.

In this episode, Darcie Jaremey breaks down the five biggest misconceptions about workplace ergonomics that keep businesses from taking action and from working with qualified practitioners like you. Drawing on a July 2026 legal analysis from JD Supra by labor attorney Sarah Goodman of Offit Kurman, Darcie gives you the accurate regulatory picture and shows you exactly how to use it in your next client conversation. (Here's the full article: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/no-standard-still-liable-how-osha-7637946/)

What you'll take away:

• Why 'no OSHA standard' does not mean 'no duty' and how to explain this to any prospect in under two minutes
• The General Duty Clause: what it is, why it applies to office ergonomics, and how OSHA used it against Amazon without a single specific ergonomics rule
• The hazard alert letter most HR managers have never heard of — and why ignoring it builds a willful violation case worth up to $156,259 per violation
• Why office workers are absolutely not exempt — and the state-level laws in Minnesota, Washington, California, Oregon, and Michigan that prove it
• Why 'we bought chairs and did training' is purchasing activity, not a safety program and what Cornell University's research says about that
• he biggest sales reframe in this episode: from 'do we need an assessment?' to 'how do you know what you already spent actually worked?' 
• How to turn every one of these misconceptions into a content piece, a sales conversation, and a reason a client picks up the phone

This episode is content you can repurpose 50 times. Darcie explains why these five facts bear repeating across LinkedIn, email, and every client conversation you have.

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