Manifesto
The work is the problem, not the worker.
Six convictions behind how JointAction works with the people doing the work, the professionals who look after them, and the organisations that run the programs. Each one shapes the methodology, the platform and the partnership.
01
Workers deserve decisions built on good evidence
For decades, workplace ergonomics has relied on trained professionals observing the work and applying their judgement. That expertise still matters. Measurement lets it reach every task, with evidence the whole team can see, question and build on, so the worker is protected by more than one person's view of a single moment.
02
The work is the problem, not the worker
Training people to lift differently has long been the default control, but it sits near the bottom of the hierarchy of controls. We start at the top — eliminate, substitute, engineer — because that is where the design of the work lives.
03
A risk score is only useful if it changes a decision
Every Consequential Risk Score is designed to point to a specific lever and answer the safety leader's real question: what should we do about it?
04
Validate the control, so you know it worked
The most expensive failure in safety is a control everyone assumes is working but isn't. Reassessing the same task after the control is in produces a directly comparable score — before and after, side by side, in evidence the team can audit and defend.
05
The program is yours
Your prevention program stays yours, and our job is to help it work better. You run and govern it; JointAction provides the partnership and support, and Etiscope provides the platform. Every assessment adds to the evidence your program builds on.
06
Assessment belongs where the work happens
Injuries happen in the confined space, the elevated work, the night shift, the remote site and the work behind PPE. Assessment has to reach those places too, which is why Etiscope uses five body-worn sensors and takes around 10 minutes per assessment: every task, not just the convenient ones.