About

Twenty-plus years of work.
One consistent standard.

Tyler Ergonomics was built on a simple premise — that credentialed expertise, applied consistently, produces outcomes that generic programs don't. That premise hasn't changed since 2002.

Tyler Ergonomics — Work safer. Work smarter. Work better.

Founded May 2002 by Rick Tyler

Founder

Rick Tyler

Rick Tyler founded Tyler Ergonomics in May 2002 with a straightforward goal: bring the workplace ergonomics expertise that drives productivity and prevents injury at large employers — and make it available to organizations of every size, in every sector.

In the twenty-plus years since, that practice has grown to serve major healthcare systems, oil and gas companies, and a wide range of office-based employers. The work changed in scope, but the standard stayed the same — credentialed specialists, documented findings, specific recommendations, and accountability for outcomes.

In 2015, a personal experience with his wife Holly's cancer diagnosis revealed a gap in the return-to-work landscape that years of ergonomics and RTW practice had uniquely positioned Rick to fill. That gap became Life|After® — a managed return-to-work program built specifically for cancer-surviving employees, running on the Tyler Ergonomics operational foundation.

Today Rick leads both organizations — Tyler Ergonomics for workplace ergonomics, productivity, and injury prevention services across every industry, and Life|After® for the specific, underserved population of cancer survivors navigating the return to work.

Credentials & background

  • 20+ years of workplace ergonomics, productivity, and injury prevention practice
  • Fortune 20 client experience in oil & gas, plus engagements across healthcare cancer centers, surgical teams, and many other industries
  • Independent practice — no equipment sales, no vendor commissions, no conflicts of interest on recommendations
  • Human-delivered ergonomics — every assessment includes expert review and judgment from a credentialed ergonomist; no AI-generated reports or algorithm-only assessments
  • HIPAA-compliant privacy practices — all client information is handled with the same data privacy standards used in healthcare settings
  • Founder, Tyler Ergonomics
  • Founder, Life|After® Cancer Survivor Management Program
  • Specialist in workplace ergonomic assessment, injury-prevention program design, and return-to-work support

Founder's note

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The work we do is about getting people back to the jobs that give their lives structure and meaning. That's been true since 2002.

Rick Tyler

Founder — Tyler Ergonomics · Life|After®

Company history

Twenty-plus years of consistent practice.

Tyler Ergonomics was not built from a single industry insight or a pivot point. It was built incrementally, engagement by engagement — growing a track record that now spans more than two decades of work in healthcare, oil & gas, and the full range of office-based employers.

May 2002

Founded on workplace ergonomics fundamentals

Tyler Ergonomics is established with Fortune 20 energy company Chevron as its first client — an engagement that anchors the practice's earliest work in the energy sector. Workplace ergonomic assessment, productivity-focused workstation design, and injury prevention through proper ergonomics take shape as the foundation services, refined across multi-year energy-sector engagements.

Mid-2000s

Healthcare becomes the second anchor sector

The practice expands into healthcare systems — including cancer center workstation design and operating room ergonomics with surgical teams — joining energy as the second anchor sector. Credentialed ergonomic expertise applied across both industries proves to meaningfully reduce injury risk and support cleaner returns to work.

2010s

Variety expands — and a return-to-work specialty takes shape

The practice serves a widening variety of employers — restaurants, cancer centers, film and television editing, athletic conferences, universities, architecture firms, and more. The core work — productivity-focused ergonomic design and injury prevention — anchors each engagement. Return-to-work ergonomic support emerges alongside it as a recognized specialty, the methodology that gives employers a clear foundation for managing employee returns after injury or medical leave.

2014–15

Holly's diagnosis — and a new program takes shape

Rick's wife Holly is diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in November 2014. The experience of navigating her cancer treatment and return to normal life reveals a gap that more than a decade of RTW practice had not addressed — no structured program existed for cancer survivors returning to work. Life|After® is built to fill it.

2015+

Life|After® launches on the Tyler Ergonomics foundation

Life|After® is established as a dedicated cancer survivor return-to-work management program — built on the operational infrastructure, specialist network, and employer relationships of Tyler Ergonomics. Both programs operate today as complementary, connected offerings.

20+
years of workplace ergonomics practice
24 yrs
anchored by a Fortune 20 client, with engagements across many other industries
2
programs — Tyler Ergonomics for ergonomic support, Life|After® for cancer survivor RTW
100%
credentialed specialists — no junior staff on client engagements

Related program

Where Tyler Ergonomics ends and Life|After® begins.

Tyler Ergonomics handles the full range of workplace ergonomics — productivity-focused workstation design, injury prevention, and the day-to-day risk management work that keeps workforces healthy and productive. Return-to-work support is part of the practice, applied across cases of injury, surgery, and complex medical conditions.

Life|After® is the program that grew out of a specific realization: cancer survivorship creates a return-to-work challenge that sits outside what standard RTW programs — including the Tyler Ergonomics model — were built for.

The fatigue that doesn't follow a schedule. The cognitive changes that affect job performance in ways that aren't visible. The emotional adjustment that generic EAP referrals don't address. The gap between medical clearance and genuine workforce readiness that every employer absorbs, mostly in silence.

Life|After® runs on the Tyler Ergonomics operational foundation — the assessment methodology, the specialist network, the employer relationships — applied specifically to cancer survivors. The two programs are connected and complementary. Employers who engage Tyler Ergonomics for standard RTW often find that Life|After® addresses cases their existing process wasn't built for.

Life|After® — Cancer Survivor Management Program

Built where standard return-to-work leaves off.

A pay-per-employee, fully remote case management program for cancer-surviving employees — coordinating the clinical, ergonomic, and human support they need to return successfully. For employers, brokers, school boards, and universities.

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