Ergzo started with a clipboard, a REBA chart, and the realisation that there was no way to reach every worker on the floor.
The problem we ran into first
Before Ergzo existed, our founder was working as a Factory Medical Officer — the doctor responsible for worker health on an industrial site. Part of that role is identifying ergonomic risk before it becomes an injury.
The available method was manual. A printed REBA or RULA chart, direct observation of the worker, angles estimated by eye, scores calculated by hand. Done carefully, a single assessment took a long time.
That is workable for one worker. It does not scale to a plant. With hundreds of workers across multiple departments and shifts, an honest assessment programme was mathematically out of reach — and the time that went into scoring was time not spent on the part that actually matters: corrective measures, prevention, and catching problems early.
The wish that became the product: a tool that made assessment fast and reproducible, so that every worker could be assessed — and the clinician’s attention could move to intervention instead of arithmetic.
The hazard nobody budgets for
Occupational health recognises five categories of workplace hazard: physical, chemical, biological, ergonomic and psychosocial.
In practice, the first three receive the majority of attention, investment and regulatory scrutiny. They are visible, they have established measurement protocols, and they produce acute incidents that demand response.
Ergonomic and psychosocial hazards get comparatively little. Not because they cause less harm — musculoskeletal disorders are among the most common occupational illnesses worldwide — but because the damage accumulates quietly over years rather than arriving as a single reportable event. There is no alarm that sounds when a worker’s posture is slowly destroying their shoulder.
Ergzo exists to make that category as measurable as the others.
How it was built
The search for an existing solution came first. What was available was either expensive, not built around ergonomic practice as it actually works, or not designed for Indian workplaces and Indian cost structures. Nothing fit.
- 27 January 2026 The project starts. The first version is a rough web app that records a worker through a laptop’s front camera and attempts to score the posture automatically.
- February – March 2026 The web prototype becomes a mobile application. Pose detection moves to the phone camera, and the validated assessment methods are implemented one by one.
- April 2026 A fully functional app: 15 validated assessment tools, instant scoring, body-part risk mapping, action plans and report export.
- 2026 Ergzo is demonstrated to safety, EHS and occupational health professionals at the Goa OSH Expo and Summit.
Who builds Ergzo
Dr. Tanay Prabhu Lawande MBBS, AFIH
An occupational health physician. AFIH is the Associate Fellowship in Industrial Health — the qualification India requires of a Factory Medical Officer. He has worked as a site doctor in construction, and as Factory Medical Officer and Occupational Health Physician at Crompton.
Ergzo is designed around how ergonomic assessment is actually practised on a working site, because it was built by someone who had to do it by hand first — and who saw which musculoskeletal complaints kept walking into the medical room.
Vaibhavi Prabhu Lawande
An IT engineer by education. She has worked on the application alongside the founder, and owns brand, content and demand generation — including outreach at industry expos, which built the pre-launch interest among safety professionals that the go-to-market plan starts from.
Ergzo is a small team. That is deliberate for now: it keeps the product close to the people who use it, and it means feedback from a safety officer on a plant floor reaches the person who writes the code.
What we are trying to achieve
Our vision is straightforward: pain-free working environments and working conditions.
Concretely, that means preventing the musculoskeletal injuries that arise from how work is physically arranged, and lowering the cost burden that follows — for the worker, who carries it in their body and their income, and for the company, which carries it in medical cost, absence, replacement and lost productivity.
Those two interests are usually presented as being in tension. They are not. The worker who is not injured and the company that is not paying for the injury want the same intervention. Ergzo is built to make that intervention easy to identify, quick to justify, and possible to prove afterwards.
What Ergzo is not: it is a professional workplace screening and risk-analysis tool, not a medical device. It does not diagnose or treat any condition, and its outputs are intended to be reviewed by a qualified ergonomist or safety professional.
Where we are now
Ergzo is pre-launch, with a waitlist open for iOS and Android. We are talking to ergonomists, EHS teams, occupational health physicians and plant managers — particularly those who have tried to run an assessment programme manually and hit the same wall we did.
If that is you, we would like to hear from you. Reach us at hello@ergzo.com.
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