Ålesund · Møre og Romsdal
One day at your workplace. A report that tells you what to fix first.
I spend a day watching how the work is actually done. Everyone answers four minutes of questions on their phone, anonymously. Then you get a written report that ranks the causes — what to fix first, roughly what each fix costs, and what isn't worth doing.
These are the nine areas everyone is asked about. It takes four minutes, it's answered on a phone, and no names are ever stored.
1 dayon site
4 minper employee, anonymous
10working days to the report
0 krif you don't think it was worth it
What you get
Six things, every time. No options to weigh up.
There is one product and one price. You are not choosing between packages, and nothing here is an upsell.
A day on your floor
I watch how the work is actually done, not how the manual says it is done — how people stand, lift, reach, sit, and whether they ever really stop.
Everyone gets a say
Four minutes of questions, answered on a phone. Completely anonymous — no names, no emails, no employee numbers, and nothing that can be traced back to a person.
Workstations scored
The stations carrying the most load get scored with the two standard methods used across the field, so the numbers mean the same thing to anyone who reads them.
Legal duties checked
An eight-point check against what the law already requires of you. It starts with the eye tests for screen workers that most employers have simply never provided.
The report
Causes ranked by how many people they reach and how clear the evidence is. What each fix roughly costs. And, just as usefully, what isn't worth doing.
A number to measure against
You end up with a baseline. Run it again in a year and you can see what moved, instead of arguing about whether anything did.
The day itself
What actually happens, hour by hour.
Nobody stops working. There is no workshop, no seminar, and nobody has to stand in front of a room.
Morning
I walk the floor
Usually with your verneombud or HMS lead. I watch the work happen and ask short questions where something looks worth asking about. Nothing is filmed without asking first.
During the day
Everyone answers, on their own phone
A link or a QR code on the wall. Four minutes, anonymous, in their own time. People say things to a form that they will not say to a consultant with a clipboard, and that gap is most of the value.
Afternoon
The heaviest workstations get scored
I pick the stations where the load actually sits and score them properly. This is the part that turns "my back hurts" into a specific bench at a specific height.
End of day
I leave and you get your day back
No debrief meeting, no slides, no homework. If something urgent or clearly unlawful turned up, you hear about it before I drive off — not in ten days' time.
Within ten working days
The report arrives
Written for the people who have to act on it, not for another consultant. Short enough that your leadership team will actually read it, and specific enough to put straight into your HMS plan.
What lands on your desk
A ranked list, with prices attached.
Most reports tell you everything they found. This one tells you what to do on Monday, in order, and what each thing is likely to cost.
Packing bench is too low
Everyone at the bench works bent forward. It is the single clearest signal in the survey and the cheapest thing on this list to fix.
No eye tests have ever been offered
A legal duty you already have, currently unmet. Cheap to close, and it is the first thing an inspection will ask about.
Night shift never fully recovers
A clear signal, but the causes are tangled up with rota design. Worth looking into properly rather than guessing at a fix.
New office chairs are not the answer
It was already budgeted for. The data does not support it, so the money is better spent on item 1. Saying so is part of the job.
Price
Move the slider. That's the price.
Priced on headcount, because headcount decides how many genuinely different kinds of work there are and how many workstations have to be scored. No proposal, no discovery call before you're allowed to know.
Your price
38 000kr, excl. MVA
Time on siteOne and a half days
Kinds of work includedup to 4
Cost per employee, once190 kr
"Kinds of work" means genuinely different physical demands. An office, a warehouse and a welding bay count as three. If you have more than the tier covers, each extra one is 6 000 kr.
What I don't claim
The two things I could easily sell you, and won't.
Both of these would make this page more persuasive. Neither is supported well enough to put in writing, so they are not on offer.
I will not promise your sick leave goes down
A 2025 systematic review found that most workplace ergonomic programmes showed no statistically significant effect on sickness absence — even where they genuinely reduced physical risk. Anyone who promises you an absence figure is either not reading the research or hoping you haven't. This exclusion is written into the contract as well as onto this page.
Participatory ergonomic interventions — systematic review, JMIR Human Factors, 2025
I will not tell you I found the root cause
Asking people how they feel at one moment in time cannot prove what caused it. What the report gives you is a ranked list of the most likely causes — ordered by how many people they reach, how strong the signal is, and how good the evidence behind them is. The ranking formula is printed in the report so you can argue with it.
The correct term is driver prioritisation, not root cause analysis.
What the research does support
Graded honestly, including the weak ones.
Grade A means strong trial evidence. Grade B means good but indirect. Grade C means it isn't a research question at all — it's the law.
AStrong
Targeted strength training genuinely reduces neck and shoulder pain. A 20-week randomised trial of 351 people, and a companion trial of 447. This is about as good as evidence gets in this field.
BGood, indirect
How people rate their own ability to work predicts who will be off long-term. 11 131 people, followed for three years against official records. It's a strong signal — but it predicts, it doesn't prove cause.
BGood, indirect
Changing several things at once works better than changing one. Which is precisely why a report that ranks everything it found is more useful than one that names a single villain.
Systematic review, 2025
CNot evidence — law
If your people work at screens, you must pay for their eye tests, and for glasses if they're needed for that distance. This isn't a recommendation and it isn't graded. Most employers I speak to have never done it.
Arbeidstilsynet — employer obligation
Anonymity
Nobody finds out who said what. Including me.
People only answer honestly if that is genuinely true, so it is built into how the survey works rather than promised in a policy.
No names are collected at all
Not anonymised afterwards — never collected in the first place. There is no list anywhere linking an answer to a person.
Groups of five or more only
No result is ever reported for a group small enough to identify someone. If only three people do a job, that job's answers are folded into a larger group.
No dashboard to go digging in
You get a report, not a tool with filters. Filtering is how people get identified, so the filters don't exist.
Taking part is optional
Anyone can skip it, and you are never told who did. I brief your tillitsvalgt and verneombud on the design before a single question goes out.
Who does this
Arjun Ajith
I'm an engineer who spent twenty years teaching yoga, which is an odd combination until you watch someone work for a day.
I trained as a mechanical engineer and then took a master's in systems engineering. Engineering taught me to look for where load actually travels through a structure, and that an intervention you can't measure isn't an intervention — it's a hope. Twenty years of teaching taught me what those loads feel like from the inside, and why people quietly work around a problem for years instead of reporting it.
I've taught in India, Qatar, Sweden and Norway, and moved to Ålesund in 2020.
Most workplaces already know something is wrong. What they don't have is a ranked list of what to do about it, written by someone with no equipment to sell them.
That last part matters. I don't sell chairs, desks, software or insoles, and I take no commission from anyone who does. If the honest answer is that your budget is better spent somewhere other than my recommendations, the report says so.
- Education
- B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering · M.Sc. Innovation and Technology Management, specialising in Systems Engineering
- Practice
- 20+ years · Kerala lineage · Yoga Alliance certified
- Methods used
- The standard Nordic questionnaire, REBA and RULA workstation scoring, and the Work Ability Score
- Language
- Reports and conversations in English. Norwegian is in progress — and English reaches the colleagues that Norwegian-only programmes quietly leave out
- Based in
- Ålesund · working across Møre og Romsdal
Two places · autumn 2026
Two workplaces get this free.
I'm new to this market and would rather say so than pretend otherwise. Two organisations get the full analysis at no charge this autumn. In exchange I need two things: an honest quote from your HMS or HR lead — including a critical one — and permission to publish the findings with your name removed.
You get the same day, the same survey and the same report as a paying client. The only difference is that I'm buying a reference instead of an invoice.
Questions
The things people actually ask.
We already have an occupational health service. Why would we need this?
Your bedriftshelsetjeneste is there to advise you and to meet a legal requirement, and most do that well. What almost none of them produce is a ranked, costed list of what to fix first — they tend to describe what they found and leave the prioritising to you. That prioritising is the entire product here. I'm not a replacement for your BHT, and the report is written so it can sit alongside their work rather than argue with it.
Is this just an ergonomics assessment with a new name?
Ergonomic scoring is one of the four inputs, not the product. A standard assessment scores workstations and stops. This one also asks every single employee, checks the legal duties you already have, and then weighs all of it together into an order of work with prices attached. A workstation can score perfectly and still be the wrong thing to spend money on.
Our people won't fill in a survey.
Some won't, and the report tells you how many did rather than hiding it. Three things help: it's four minutes not forty, it's on their own phone during paid working hours, and it's genuinely anonymous — which people work out quickly once they see there's no login. If response rates come in too low to say anything useful, I'll tell you that plainly instead of dressing up a thin result.
What if you don't find anything?
That happens, and it's still a result worth having. "Your workstations are fine and your problem is recovery time, not equipment" saves you from spending a budget on the wrong thing. And the statutory check alone usually finds something — the eye tests are unmet more often than not. If you genuinely think the report wasn't worth it, you don't pay.
Can you do this in Norwegian?
The report and our conversations are in English, and my Norwegian is still in progress. In the Ålesund engineering cluster that's rarely an issue. On a mixed floor it's often an advantage — English reaches the Polish, Filipino and Baltic colleagues that Norwegian-only programmes tend to miss, and they're frequently the ones doing the heaviest work. If your floor genuinely runs in Norwegian only, tell me early and I'll say straight out that I'm the wrong supplier this year.
How disruptive is this to a working day?
Barely. Nobody leaves their station, there's no workshop and no presentation. The only cost to you is four minutes per person and someone to walk me round for the first hour. Most of what I need I get by watching work that was going to happen anyway.
Get in touch
Fifteen minutes is enough to know if this is worth doing.
Tell me roughly how many people you have and what kind of work they do, and I can tell you the price and whether it's worth your time — usually inside a quarter of an hour. If it isn't a fit, I'd rather say so quickly than sell you a day of my time.