Cisco Systems Selects ESHconnect Courses for Ergonomics Training.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2001

Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet, has selected web-based ergonomics courses from ESHconnect(TM), Inc. to train its employees on the ways of preventing ergonomic injuries in the workplace. Cisco is implementing ErgoNet(R), an on-line tutorial and self-assessment tool from the ESHconnect library of courseware. ErgoNet was originally developed by the University of California Berkeley Human Factors Engineering Laboratory and is provided as a hosted training application along with the A-Train learning management system by Syntrio, Inc., of San Francisco.

Cisco's Environmental Health and Safety Department has a proactive ergonomics program to minimize the risk to its employees. According to Chris Martino, Cisco's EHS program manager, "Cisco makes great efforts to ensure that its employees' risk of ergonomic injury is greatly reduced. By using ESHconnect's web-based training not only can we provide training for our employees, but also can employ a self-assessment tool that will help our professional ergonomists identify which employees need follow-up attention to prevent ergonomic issues from becoming injuries."

ESHconnect provides a suite of web-based ergonomic training applications for office and manufacturing environments and is developing courses for specific industries such as healthcare, laboratories and heavy industry. "We are extremely pleased to support Cisco's best-in-class safety & health training program with our ergonomics courses," stated Brian Sherin, president of ESHconnect. "Even with Congress' repeal of the OSHA Ergonomic Rule, leading companies like Cisco recognize that educating their workers about the risks and means to prevent musculoskeletal injuries will protect their workers and result in a more productive workplace. ESHconnect's web-based training solutions provide employers with a powerful tool to deliver this training economically and it automatically tracks and document the results of this training." In addition to ergonomics-related courses, ESHconnect has a library of over 30 courses in various aspects of environmental safety and health and human resources training.

About ESHconnect: ESHconnect, Inc. offers its customers the ability to conduct Environmental Safety & Health (ESH) problem solving, significantly reduce paper-based ESH documentation, and employ cutting-edge learning technologies through the use of web-based applications. ESHconnect, is a sister company of EORM(R) Inc., headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, which provides strategically oriented ESH management and technical consulting services to a broad range of industries. EORM is the leader in the application of ESH tools and strategies for the semiconductor, electronics, biotechnology, and other rapidly changing and competitive industries. Through the combination of ESHconnect's technology applications and EORM's national network of professional ESH management consultants, clients receive a complete solution. More information on ESHconnect and EORM is available at www.ESHconnect.com and www.eorm.com, respectively.

About Syntrio: Syntrio is an Application Service Provider offering hosted learning solutions for compliance, loss control and general business training. Syntrio's solution provides access to a flexible and scalable learning management system, an expanding library of online courseware, as well as custom course development and consulting services to meet a wide range of corporate training needs. Additional information about Syntrio is available at www.syntrio.com.