Office Ergonomics Consultancy
In addition to our extensive knowledge in office ergonomics and health and safety in the workplace, we work with one of the countries leading ergonomists to provide a comprehensive, reliable and authorised facility for assessing the needs of your business, your staff and your office.
After the assessment we will recommend changes and solutions, which will significantly reduce the many negative issues surrounding bad office ergonomics and health and safety in the office and work with you to implement these changes and supply or source any products and services, which are highlighted and agreed as appropriate. 
Levent Çaglar
MSc Ergonomics, BSc Engineering
Senior Ergonomist at FIRA International
Having completed his BSc in Mechanical Engineering, he joined University College London where he studied for the Masters degree in Ergonomics. He is a Registered Member of the Ergonomics Society.
Levent has been practising ergonomics for 25 years. In addition to working with Facio, Levent runs the Ergonomics Unit at FIRA. Much of his recent work has been in the areas of ergonomics in schools, health and safety ergonomics, office ergonomics, ergonomics input to furniture design, risk assessment of VDU workstations and risk assessment of manual handling operations, in particular their effect on people’s backs.
He is an expert on the European Directives and UK legislation concerning health and safety ergonomics. He is also the Principal UK ergonomics expert on European (CEN) and international (ISO) standards committees, , which are responsible for producing ergonomics standards for educational, office, contract and domestic furniture. He is the convenor of the European committee for furniture for educational institutions.
He provides ergonomics input into the design, development and assessment of furniture from concept to final product stage. Examples include collaboration with two major USA chair manufacturers to design new office chairs (Aeron chair for Herman Miller and the Please chair for Steelcase), and collaboration with UK, Danish and USA desking companies for the design of new workstations and desks.
He produces Ergonomics specifications for office furniture for facilities managers and furniture purchasers. To complement this he has developed a totally objective furniture selection tool for identifying the furniture appropriate for an individual organisation and for their workforce. His client for this type of work Financial Times, BAA, Metropolitan Police and various banks and financial institutions.
He carries out Ergonomics assessment and certification of office furniture for compliance with standards for UK, European and USA. . He has developed the FIRA Ergonomics Excellence Awards , which is awarded to products,, which excel in ergonomics as well as being safe and comfortable for the users. Companies who achieved the award are ecologically responsible and manufacture under recognised quality systems.
He has carried out many risk assessments for VDU workstations in offices, dealing rooms, control rooms and workplaces. He is known for producing effective and practical ergonomics solutions for the elimination or reduction of the risks he identifies, in terms of equipment and task redesign or modification.
He has carried out risk assessment of existing counters and work systems for UK banks and building societies. Working in an interdisciplinary team with designers, architects, health and safety officers and facilities managers to modify existing counters and design new counters and systems for nationwide installation for Abbey National, NatWest, Cheltenham and Gloucester and HSBC Bank.
In 2001 he has completed the research on the sizes of children. He has found that children are still getting taller at a rate of 1cm per decade. He has produced new set of anthropometric data for the British children. He has undertaken many studies for the Department for Education and. The results of these studies have been used by the department for the production of their guidelines on the use and purchase of school furniture. He provided the ergonomics data for the School furniture website www.schoolfurniture.uk.com which provides ergonomic data for school furniture and fittings.
He regularly writes articles on ergonomics of furniture. He has concentrated on issues affecting the users, their health and comfort and also on design issues and guidelines for designers.
His other activities include:
Ergonomics assessment of furniture and ancillary equipment for fitness for purpose.
Lectures and seminars on complying with directives, legislation and standards, on office ergonomics and on ergonomics aspects of health and safety, design of furniture.
Expert witness in litigation cases on ergonomics of furniture and health & safety.
If you would like to discuss our ergonomics consultancy services in more detail, please contact us on 01494 812803 or by fill-in our contact form.