Workplace Ergonomics Safety
What you’ll learn
- Develop awareness of the importance and significance of having an ergonomically safe workplace
- Identify the different effects of ergonomic hazards to the human at work; musculoskeletal injuries
- Identify ergonomic hazards and risk factors of musculoskeletal disorders in your work environment
- Determine appropriate controls for ergonomic risks in the workplace. Understanding the hierarchy of controls of ergonomic risks
- Understand the regulations and standards guiding ergonomics in the workplace
- Become conversant with how to create an ergonomics program, including hazard assessment, training arrangement and employee engagement in your workplace
- Acquire skills and useful tools to carry out ergonomics risk identification and assessment
Ergonomics affects all aspects of workers’ safety and performance at work. Poor ergonomics is linked to a range of injuries and accidents at work. Ergonomics is concerned with the fit between people and their technological tools/environments. Often called “Human Factors Engineering”, ergonomics promote a strong foundation in building guidelines and strategies in occupational health & safety in the workplace, whether physical-oriented or office-oriented. From strategy to evaluation, it has gained wide reputation and significance across all industries as part of meeting local and international regulations regarding occupational safety.
This course is beneficial for individuals in management positions, HSE supervisors, HR personnel, office workers, facility managers, risk managers, business owners and anyone interested in occupational safety and health knowledge.
This course on ergonomics provides basic to intermediate and an opportunity for advanced learning and skills on identifying ergonomic problems in the workplace. It also provides learning on how to assess the need for an ergonomic program in an organisation while providing details on the approach to take towards instituting control measures for the management of ergonomic related risks.
The course also provides detailed and relevant toolkit for the identification and assessment of ergonomic risks in tasks, jobs and work environments in an organisation. The course also includes case studies, additional explanatory videos, quizzes and further study materials.
Who this course is for:
- Workers that require an understanding of ergonomic hazards, risk factors and steps to take to maintain an ergonomically safe workplace.
- Supervisors and Managers that wish to acquire better understanding of Ergonomics Safety standards and procedures for a safe workplace
- Safety Professionals that wish to learn and/or refresh their knowledge of Ergonomics standards, programs, policies and procedures.
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