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How New Balance Uses AI to Measure and Reduce Repetitive Injury Risk

January 15, 2026
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The Challenge

Repetitive and musculoskeletal injuries represent the majority ofsafety risk at New Balance, accounting for an estimated 85% of OSHA recordables. While the EHS team had strong ergonomics expertise, they faced ongoing challenges:

  1. Subjective, manual ergonomic assessments
  2. Inconsistent feedback across sites and assessors
  3. Limited ability to quantify improvement for leadership

Traditional methods required repeated video review, manual repetition counting, and varied documentation formats, making it difficult to scale consistency or demonstrate progress.

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The Solution

New Balance selected TuMeke to bring speed, objectivity, and clarity to ergonomics. After completing internal AI governance approvals, the team chose TuMeke for its ability to:

  • Quantify posture and repetitive motion risk
  • Standardize assessments across users and locations
  • Deliver fast, visual feedback that engages associates
  • Scale without specialized training or wearables


How TuMeke is Used

Within six months, TuMeke has been deployed across manufacturing, distribution centers, offices, and home-based workers. ‍

  • Standardized Assessments

TuMeke enables consistent, video-based evaluations regardless of assessor experience, putting all users on a common framework.

  • Engagement and Coaching

Visual feedback helps associates recognize postural habits and supports coaching conversations that feel collaborative rather than observational.

  • Quantifiable Improvement

Teams can demonstrate clear before-and-after results, such as workstation improvements from 82% to 93%, giving leaders objective proof of progress.

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“TuMeke has been a valuable teaching tool, an engagement component, and a way to standardize feedback across our team. It helps remove subjectivity and puts everybody on the same playing field.”
- Amie Hewett, Environmental Health & Safety Manager, New Balance

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Spotlight Use Case

Job Rotation as a top ergonomic initiative

Historically, rotation strategies relied on intuition to classify jobs as high or low risk. With TuMeke, the team is using objective data to compare ergonomic risk across tasks, design smarter rotation schedules, and reduce subjectivity in workforce planning.

One early project compares sitting versus standing workstations in a manufacturing department to support safer design decisions with data-driven evidence.

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Key Takeaways

  • 85% of OSHA recordables are repetitive or MSD-related
  • 82% - 93% example ergonomic improvement using TuMeke
  • 6 Months to adoption across diverse work environments
  • Job Rotation identified as the top strategic ergonomics priority

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Learn more about New Balance and download the full case study here.

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