Practical Industrial Ergonomics II
Getting the business benefits
Practical Industrial Ergonomics - II is a two day industrial training course which will show participants how to identify the causes of injuries and how to apply ergonomics principles to modify existing work areas, design new facilities, and select and design equipment and tooling. This approach will help reduce staff sickness and absenteeism, lower healthcare costs, insurance premiums and compensation claims and improve the productivity of the workforce and the quality of the product.
This course is recognised by the Ergonomics Society at level 2, ideal for continuous professional development.
Who should attend?
This course is suitable for engineers, health & safety specialists, and occupational health departments. It is ideal initial training for an organisation's Ergonomics Team or Ergonomics Committee.
What skills and information will they learn?
After completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Recognise human capabilities and limitations
- Identify potential causes of upper limb and back problems
- Complete ergonomics checklists to prioritise levels of risk
- Identify the ergonomic solutions that can be applied to reduce problems
- Apply ergonomics principles and criteria when designing new or modifying existing workplaces, equipment and tools
- Conduct worksite analyses
- Write and implement an ergonomics programme
- Measure and monitor results of implementing this programme
Course content
A comprehensive reference manual and checklists are provided.
This course is highly interactive with many different group activities. It uses slides and video (taken from the client site when the course is customised) to reinforce the ergonomics principles presented. Key elements of the course are:
Introduction to Ergonomics
- Anthropometry, biomechanics and physiology
Types and causes of injuries and illnesses
- Hand/wrist
- Shoulder/arm
- Back/lower limb
Ergonomics principles
- Workplace design
- Work area layout
- Materials task placement
- Controls placement
- Manual materials handling
- Work procedures
- Design and use of tools
Ergonomics checklists
- Instruction and demonstration
- Practical exercises assessing upper limb intensive and manual handling jobs
- Risk prioritisation process
Guidelines for measuring results
Implementing an ergonomics programme
How to measure results
- Productivity
- Quality
- Injury reduction
Course information and how to book
This two day course is offered in-house and is usually customised to use examples from your own business.
The course can either be run as a non-accredited course without assessment or as an Ergonomics Society Level 2 accredited course, in which case participants have to successfully complete a 2 part assessment:
- a written assessment, based on multiple-choice questions, on the last day of the course
- a practical work-based project carried out after the course
The Ergonomics Society will then provide certificates to successful participants.
The accredited course costs £3,700 + VAT or £3,000 without accreditation for up to 16 participants, a cost of £188 + VAT per head for a full course. Customisation costs from £900.
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What did previous participants think?
"Very valuable and applicable."
"Very informative course, well presented, plenty of opportunity to become involved"
"Well presented and relevant."
"Very useful in future design of workstations, process and tooling."
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