June 30, 2003—Magnitude Information Systems, the developer of Anti-Injury ergonomic software solutions for government agencies and Fortune 500 corporations, announced that Southern California Edison (SCE) has expanded its enterprise deployment of Magnitudes patented Anti-Injury software for its employees who use computers.
California’s second largest investor-owned electric utility company, Southern California Edison’s supplies power to a population of 12 million people, via 4.3 million business and residential accounts in a 50,000-square-mile service area within central, coastal and Southern California.
SCE has identified office ergonomics as an important safety issue and a productivity lever. Magnitudes software provides SCE with the opportunity to enhance its employees overall safety, while increasing productivity when they are engaged on the computer.
Over the last decade Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and other Repetitive Strain Injuries (RSI) have become the largest injury category plaguing computer users in the workplace, home and school. In 2001 two thirds of all workers compensation claims were RSI related costing U.S. companies tens of billions of dollars annually.
