ProErgo+ Online Discomfort Survey
Real insights from your workplace
Data-driven insights delivered remotely
While a facilitated body map session is great, the travel costs and logistics for sites outside of Christchurch can be a real headache. Our Online Discomfort Survey removes those barriers, allowing your team to provide honest feedback on their aches and pains from any location in New Zealand.
We can tailor the survey to specific work groups within your organisation so you can identify the tasks for further investigation. In this way you can start to look deeply at the root causes of discomfort, pain, or injury.
By going digital, you can survey up to 200 team members within your organisation to gain valuable insights about where they are experiencing the discomfort, how bad the discomfort is, and how often it occurs. This is practical approach provides a broader data set to inform the next steps in your risk management journey. It helps you meet your health and safety obligations while improving worker wellbeing and protecting your bottom line.
Essentially, you get the same high-quality ergonomics expertise without the invoice for flights and rental cars. It is about being efficient and focused on what matters: making work better for your people.
Your Facilitator: Expertise You Can Trust
When you partner with ProErgo+, you gain over two decades of specialist experience in ergonomics and musculoskeletal risk management. I bridge the gap between employee discomfort and actionable workplace design by leading high-impact workshops. These sessions transform your team into the architects of their own safety.
By specialising in systems-thinking root cause analysis, I move beyond fixing individuals to identifying evidence-based design solutions. I manage group dynamics to ensure every
voice is heard during the process. Using structured tools, I deliver clear, visual hot spot reporting that empowers leaders to make data-driven decisions.
I translate complex health and safety requirements into logical, participatory frameworks that employees actually want to engage with. My mission is to help New Zealand businesses move from reactive tick-box compliance to a proactive culture of care. I focus on finding novel approaches to prevent injuries and improve wellbeing for all New Zealanders.
Leanne Hunter
Director & Principal Advisor
Benefits of an Online Discomfort Survey
Taking your discomfort reporting online offers more than just convenience. It provides a clear, evidence-based map of where your risks actually sit. Partnering with an external specialist from ProErgo+ offers several key advantages:
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You can capture the voice of up to 200 workers at once, ensuring no one’s discomfort goes unheard.
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Instead of guessing where the problems are, the data tells us exactly which work groups or tasks need a closer look.
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Anonymous digital feedback often captures more honest insights than a face-to-face chat might.
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This data provides a baseline to measure the success of future design changes or equipment trials.
How the body mapping partnership works
The practical details to help you understand how we can work together.
Click on the headings below for more information, or if you prefer, use the contact form to email or call us for more details.
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It is a participatory workshop that lasts about 1 hour and includes up to 12 employees who perform the same or very similar tasks. To ensure people feel comfortable speaking openly, we recommend these sessions are for frontline employees only, rather than including direct supervisors or managers.
We use visual body maps so your team can identify exactly where they feel discomfort while performing specific tasks.
I facilitate a group discussion to dig deeper, moving beyond just ‘where it hurts’ to pinpointing ‘why it happens’. By using the group’s collective expertise, we can begin to identify root causes in your current work design.
This process helps us to start looking more deeply at the issues and consider a full range of contributing risk factors. It is a practical way to engage with your teams if you are at the start of your musculoskeletal risk management journey.
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Not at all. These sessions are structured to be constructive. By using a systems thinking approach, we shift the focus from individual complaints towards identifying root causes. This collaborative process provides the evidence you need to plan practical next steps to effectively manage musculoskeletal risks.
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Privacy is paramount for building trust. Even in the group sessions no private health or medical information is collected and all employees markers on the body maps are anonymous.
In the group sessions an A3 sized body map is posted on a wall. Participants are asked to use coloured markers to mark where they experience discomfort. The map is then used to facilitate further discussion.
If you prefer, there are alternatives for how employees complete the body maps that allow for more privacy:
Individual A4 body maps can be given to team members before the facilitated session. They are asked to complete them and then use a private ‘drop-box’ so the data can be collected. This information would then be transcribed onto a large body map ready for the group discussion.
A large A3 body map can be posted in a private room for several days where team members can mark the body map in their own time. The completed map would be used in the group discussion.
Because the results are anonoymous, whichever method you select employees need to feel safe being honest without fear of their personal health data being exposed to peers or management.
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You won't just get a pile of drawings. I translate the workshop findings into a visual ‘hot spot’ report. This identifies trends across your teams and provides you with a prioritised list of tasks that require further investigation, helping you work towards effective, long-term improvements.
Typically, this report will be provided to you within a week of the workshop.
The report is just the starting point. Once you have your prioritised list, ProErgo+ can support you with the further investigation phase to conduct deep-dive assessments into high-risk tasks.
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The logistics are pretty simple. You will need to:
Provide a room large enough for a group of around 12 people who do the same or very similar jobs.
Allow employees about 1 hour to participate in the session.
Several sessions may be needed if you have people that do different work.
I provide all the specialised materials, including body maps, markers, and the facilitation frameworks required to turn the session into actionable results.
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To book your facilitated body mapping workshop, email or call us so we understand what you need and when you need it. We will check our availability and get back in touch with you.
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All body mapping sessions are delivered in-person at your site. Because every business has different needs, we don’t have a ‘one size fits all’ fee.
Larger businesses may need multiple sessions to capture different work groups and we can facilitate up to four sessions in a single day.
As an example: To prepare for and facilitate a 1-hour session, and provide you with the analysed results, typically involves around 4 hours work.
There may be additional travel charges if you are more than 30km from our Rolleston base, but we will always discuss this with you beforehand. Please get in touch to discuss your specific requirements.
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We include travel within a 30km radius of our base in Rolleston. For sites further afield or across the rest of the country, we will agree on travel costs and expenses with you beforehand. We want to keep things fair and transparent so there are no surprises when the invoice arrives.
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A facilitated body mapping workshop tells you where your team are experiencing discomfort and considers the specific tasks that might be causing issues.
Remotely administered online discomfort surveys use the body map to identify discomfort, and the severity of the issues. These can be tailored to your workplace to capture data for up to 200 employees working across different roles.
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ProErgo+ is happy to travel to your site, though there will be additional travel expenses that we will discuss with you beforehand.
An alternative to the in-person body mapping sesion, we can administer a remote online discomfort survey for up to 200 employees in different roles. We can tailor this to reflect particular job titles within your business, while keeping the data anonymous.
The discomfort survey is a more in-depth type of body map that also considers the severity of the discomfort.
Dedicated to providing high-quality, trusted ergonomics support
Driving change through participatory insights.
Whether you are in Christchurch or further afield, our body mapping workshops provide a practical way to capture real-time employee insights and meet your health and safety obligations without the paperwork fatigue.
If you have concerns about physical discomfort in your workplace that have been sitting on your desk for too long, or you simply need a clear starting point for your musculoskeletal risk management journey, click the button below to get in touch. Let's see how we can support your team now.