A message from the Founder

Most workplace prevention breaks down at the same point. A task gets assessed, a hazard gets flagged, and the finding then sits somewhere disconnected from what happens next. Corrective actions get assigned in one system, completion gets confirmed somewhere else, if at all, and by the time anyone asks whether the task actually got safer, the trail is gone. WorkEddy closes that gap by keeping four steps that are too often kept apart connected: structured task assessment, worker feedback on discomfort and task conditions, corrective-action assignment with evidence of completion, and follow-up reassessment showing whether the assessed risk actually changed.

WorkEddy is not technology for its own sake. It is a prevention tool that helps organizations see whether corrective action was completed, whether assessed task-level risk changed, and whether additional action is needed.

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).

Technology-assisted analysis supports this process, but it does not replace the people responsible for workplace health and safety. Every assessment produced through WorkEddy is intended for review and confirmation by a qualified user before it informs a decision.

U.S. worker-health relevance

Work-related overexertion, repetitive motion, strain, and back injuries remain documented components of the U.S. workplace-injury burden. During 2023–2024, private-industry employers reported 946,290 cases involving days away from work, job restriction, or transfer attributed to overexertion, repetitive motion, and bodily conditions.[1]

WorkEddy's initial focus is on small and midsize U.S. employers that may not maintain a dedicated ergonomics team, supporting structured task assessment, corrective-action tracking, and follow-up reassessment within a single connected, documented workflow rather than scattered across spreadsheets, inspection notes, and email threads.

WorkEddy does not assume software alone prevents workplace injury. Effective prevention also depends on worker participation, sound task and equipment design, organizational commitment, qualified professional judgment, and the actual completion of corrective actions.

What WorkEddy can do is surface risk earlier, keep the link between finding it and fixing it from getting lost, and turn that record into a documented pattern of prevention, the kind of evidence that supports not only a single correction, but a growing, de-identified understanding of what actually reduces harm.

Prevention should not wait until pain becomes routine. My goal is to make the path from identifying task-level risk to taking and documenting preventive action shorter, clearer, and easier to verify over time.

Founder preparation

Treasure James brings graduate education spanning occupational safety and health, social innovation, entrepreneurship, and innovation to the development of WorkEddy. Her professional experience includes occupational safety coordination, workplace risk assessment, safety training, program administration, and the development of worker-centered prevention approaches. Her doctoral studies focus on health policy, leadership, management, and applied public-health research.