Summary: A 2 day course on improving health and safety and productivity in an industrial setting.
Provider: System Concepts
Location: UK
Duration: 2 days
Knowledge/experience needed: None
Email: enquiries@system-concepts.com
Website: www.system-concepts.com
Who should attend and why?
Anyone interested in improving health and safety and productivity in an industrial setting will benefit from this course, including Health and Safety professionals, Ergonomics committees, Facilities and manufacturing engineers. You will learn skills and tools to make simple and effective ergonomic improvements in the industrial environment which will improve the health, safety and productivity of your workforce. The hands-on problem-solving methodologies teach you to recognise, evaluate, and control ergonomic risk and so make practical, cost-effective changes which will:
- Improve product quality
- Improve workforce productivity and morale
- Reduce staff sickness and absenteeism
- Reduce healthcare costs, insurance premiums and compensation claims
What will you learn?
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe why ergonomics is important to companies
- Identify common work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) and their signs and symptoms
- Quickly and easily identify ergonomic issues and solutions using the Ergonomics Hit List™
- Identify ergonomic risk factors using the Baseline Risk Identification of Ergonomic Factors (BRIEF™) Survey
- Prioritise jobs based on ergonomic risk factors and other data
- Analyse manual material handling tasks with advanced ergonomics assessment tools including Psychophysical analysis guidelines for push, pull, and carry, NIOSH Lifting Equation
- Specify basic working heights, reach distances, and force limits using design guidelines
- Cost justify improvements using the Standard Time Efficiency Process (STEP™) methodology
- Perform an ergonomics job review using the appropriate methods
- Structure the ergonomics process for success in the critical first 90 days
Course content
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 Occupational Ergonomics: Ergonomics as a business agenda; Impact of the aging workforce; Overview of the assessment tools
- Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders: Force, frequency, and posture; Types of WMSDs; Physiology of aging (hearing, vision, cognitive)
- Recognising Ergonomic Issues: The Ergonomics Hit List™ card; The Ergonomics Action Form™
- Hands-On Exercises: Identify ergonomic issues with the Ergonomics Hit List and Ergonomics Action Form
- Evaluating Ergonomic Risk Factors: Ergonomic risk factors; The BRIEF™ Survey
- Hands-On Exercises: Evaluating ergonomic risk with the BRIEF Survey
- Prioritising Ergonomic Risk: The BEST™ assessment
- Analysing Manual Material Handling Tasks: NIOSH lifting equation; Push, pull, carry guidelines
- Hands-On Exercises: Calculating a job hazard score with the BEST; Calculating lifting limits using NIOSH guidelines
- Applying Ergonomic Design Guidelines: Ergonomic design principles; Considering the aging population; Key design guidelines; Work heights; Reaches; Tools; Strength; Manual material handling
- Cost Justifying Ergonomic Improvements: Ergonomics and value-added analysis; Removing waste through ergonomics; Cost justifying improvements with the STEP™ methodology
- Hands-On Exercises: Applying ergonomic guidelines to workstation designs
Assessment
A written assessment on the last day of the course.