Course Details:
2.5 Days, 18 Instructional Hours
18 MESH Hours – Manager of Environmental Safety and Health
18 Professional Development Hours for Engineers – PDH
18 Professional Development Hours for Engineers – PDH
This course is eligible for credit towards the Safety & Health Fundamentals Certificate.
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About This Course:
This course covers the use of ergonomic principles to recognize, evaluate, and control workplace conditions that cause or contribute to musculoskeletal and nerve disorders. Course emphasis is on industrial case studies covering analysis and design of workstations and equipment, workshops in manual lifting, and coverage of current OSHA compliance policies and guidelines. Upon course completion students will have the ability to recognize work-related musculoskeletal and nerve disorders, assess employer’s ergonomic programs, and conduct ergonomic evaluations.
Recommended for:
This course is recommended for staff designated with the responsibility of managing safety and health in the workplace, safety committee members, and other personnel responsible with the responsibility of minimizing health hazards in the workplace.
Participants will:
- Recognize OSHA’s policy on ergonomics
- Describe basic ergonomic principles and common ergonomic stressors in the workplace
- Describe the effects of work-related musculo-skeletal disorders
- Apply basic anthropometric principles
- Identify techniques for measuring and controlling ergonomic exposure and risk
Topics include:
- Work physiology
- Anthropometry
- Musculoskeletal disorders
- Ergonomic risk factors and stressors common in various workplaces
- Ergonomic measurement techniques (REBA, RULA, Snook, etc)