OTI 7000 OSHA Ergonomics Guidelines Training for Nursing Homes

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1 day(s) , 7 instructional hours

About This Event:

The focus of this one-day course is to use OSHA's Ergonomics Guidelines for Nursing Homes to develop a process to protect workers in nursing homes and long term care facilities. The course will focus on analyzing and identifying ergonomically challenging jobs and provide practical solutions to address them.

Featured topics include: developing an ergonomic process; identifying risk factors in the nursing home guidelines: identifying problem jobs including protocol for resident assessment; and implementing solutions including work practices and engineering solutions.

Recommended For:

This course is recommended for the nursing home administrator and/or human resource personnel designated with the responsibility to develop an ergonomic process.

You Will:

Identify risk factors and potential risky jobs in nursing homes and long term care facilities
Identify work practice and engineering controls to reduce identified risk factors
Identify methods to implement an ergonomics program

Topics Covered Include:

Risk Factors in the nursing home guidelines
Identifying jobs with potential risks
Protocols for resident assessment
Implementing work practice and engineering controls
Developing an ergonomic program

Instructor(s):

Members of the Southeastern OSHA Training Institute Education Center staff.