Ergonomics

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Overview
If you mention on-the-job injuries, people are likely to think of accidents that involve traumatic injuries, such as fractures, burns, or other clearly visible damage to the human body. But in fact, the fastest-growing category of workplace injuries involves damage that is much harder to see; injuries caused by repetitive motion and stress.

Many businesses and industries are discovering they have problems with injuries caused by repetitive motion and stress. The effects of these injuries are not always easy to see, nor are the hidden costs involved: slower production, lower quality, job retraining, unemployment, long-term disabilities, and increased worker's compensation costs.

In today's highly complex, rapidly changing business environment, people in all types of work face increasing risks for these types of injuries. In one recent year over 281,000 injuries in the United States were caused by repetition disorders;more than double the number reported four years earlier. The most common types of these injuries are Cumulative Trauma Disorders (CTDs).
Because of the increasing number of injuries caused by repetitive motion, excessive force, and/or awkward postures and positions, ergonomics has become a critical factor in workplace safety. Ergonomics is the science that seeks to adapt tasks and tools to fit the person. It's a way of looking at the design of tasks, tools, equipment, workplace layouts and the overall organization of work to fit the job to the person, rather than the person to the job.

It's important that supervisors and managers understand CTDs and how to prevent them. This knowledge will help supervisors and managers protect employees, enhance productivity, and control the costs associated with CTDs.

We offer several Ergonomics programs.  Our ergonomic courses focus on three different areas: the office, the manufacturing environment and analysis of the work environment.

Ergonomics Course For The Office Environment

• Basics of Ergonomics
  
• Elements of an Ergonomics Program
  
• Musculoskeletal Disorders
  
• Office Ergonomics: Working in Comfort
  
• Principles of Office Ergonomics.
  

Ergonomics Courses For Manufacturing

• Industrial Ergonomics
  
• Elements of an Ergonomics Program
  
• Basics of Ergonomics
  

Analysis Of The Work Environment

• Elements of an Ergonomics Program
  
• Office Ergonomics: Task Analysis.
  

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