Ergonomic Principles: Fitting the Job to the Worker

Ergonomics is the study of how we interact with equipment, devices, and methods used in our workplaces with a focus on bodily safety and injury prevention. From repetitive motion injuries such as carpal tunnel to excessive force injuries like a hernia, the conditions resulting from awkward postures and misuse of tools can severely inhibit employee productivity and their quality of life. Understanding the principles of ergonomics helps you match the right people, tasks and equipment for the job.

This course emphasizes how proper lifting procedures and work postures can reduce the risk of injury at your workplace. Learn to identify and correct awkward lifting postures, signs of muscle fatigue and other common precursors to injury. Understand the forces exerted on the body during lifting and what ergonomic interventions can prevent injury. Finally, gain an understanding of ergonomic intervention strategies from equipment engineering, to workload distribution and behavioral-based training.

Ergonomic interventions can save your company from lost wages and productivity and improve your employees’ productivity and physical well-being. Make your managers, trainers and team leads ergonomic experts!

Employers of workers engaged in heavy lifting and repetitive motion

• An Introduction to Ergonomics
• Excessive Force on the Body
• Highly Repetitive Motions
• Awkward Postures
• Vibration
• Environment