Ergonomics and Manual Handling
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Benefits
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Understand the fundamentals of occupational
safety & health
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Describe various ergonomic problems and be
alert for symptoms among workers
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Prevent and minimize personal injuries
arising from lack of knowledge with regards to proper ergonomic.
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Understand the principles and the goals of
ergonomics and how physiology anthropometry, anatomy, biomechanics and
psychology are used to solve work-stress problems
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Understand various risk factors involved in
manual handling works
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Understand the connection between the
environments, method of work affecting ergonomics
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Understand work related Musculoskeletal
Disorders that cause injury to the workers,
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Improve productivity and quality by
reducing workplace stressors which can reduce the risk of injuries and illness
and increasing efficiency
Audience
This
program is suitable for employees with a sedentary lifestyle and who do
repetitive office / manual work
Methodology
Essentially participative and practical, emphasizing
learning through experience, both from structured activities on the program eg.
group work, video screening, case studies and discussion from individual
experience.
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Aim
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Scope
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Ground Rules
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Overview of Occupational Safety &
Health
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Definition of OSH
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Why OSH is important
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Definition & terminology
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Heinrich Theory
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Industrial Accident
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Hazards
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Classes of Hazards
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Risk
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Causes of accident
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Why manage safety
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Introduction
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Ergonomic statistics
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Requirement under OSHA 1994
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What are ergonomic problems
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Aim of Ergonomics
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The benefits of Ergonomics program
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What is ergonomics
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Objective of ergonomics program
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Human machine interaction
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Core of ergonomics knowledge
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Manual handling
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Anthropometry
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Biomechanics
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Psychology
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Introduction
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Anatomy & biomechanics
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Anatomy of spine
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Three main parts of a vertebra
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Vertebral body
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Vertebral arch
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Vertebral disc
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Vertebral disc under various loads
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Intra discal pressure
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S shape of spine
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Ligaments
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Muscles
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Muscular system
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Deep Back Muscle
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Function of ligament/muscle
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Spinal cord & nerves
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Function of the spine
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Terminology of body position
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Posture
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Muscle activity
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Type of muscle work
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Physiology of dynamic muscle
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Physiology of static muscle
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Principles of biomechanics
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Using a spine as a crane/lever
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Excessive loads (EL)
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Problems in EL
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Control measures in EL
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Excessive Force (EF)
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Control measures in EF
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Awkward posture(AP)
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Control measure for AP
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Repetition
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Static loading
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Where is your centre of gravity?
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What is static loading?
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Contact stress
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External or environmental
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Complain & comment from employees
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Signs of discomfort shown by employees
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Identification of ERF
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Conclusion
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Learning objective
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Contents
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Introduction
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WMSDs AKA
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Stats
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Risk factors
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Causes of WMSD
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WMSDs include 3 types of injury
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Tendon, muscle bone unit
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Muscle injury
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Tenosynovitis
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Tendonitis
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Bursitis
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Nerve injury
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Symptoms of WMSDs
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Identified disorder
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Recognition of WMSD
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Management of WMSD
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Preventing WMSDs
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Training
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Conclusion
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Hazard identification
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Risk evaluation
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Control measure
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Group presentation
Trainers
