Office Ergonomics 2009 - Current Trends...

Title:

Office Ergonomics 2009 - Current Trends

Description:

To learn more about the latest ergonomic research at Humanscale

Abstract:

Get up to date on the latest ergonomic findings and trends with Humanscale’s Ergonomic Educational Series. Professor Alan Hedge will present the latest research on the ergonomic requirements for healthy computing, including: • Ergonomic requirements for the modern office • Computer work and preventing musculoskeletal disorders • Latest research on keyboards and mice • Effects of input device and positioning on posture • Ergonomic chair design requirements and optimal seated posture • Visual ergonomics and new screen technologies • Research on benefits of working in dynamic neutral posture • Latest evidence on economic benefits of ergonomic interventions

Instructors:

Humanscale Staff

Delivery Method:

Classroom Instruction / Lecture with multi-media

Complexity Level:

Skill Building (application)

Course Location:

U.S.

IDCEC Code:

1 Theory and Creativity

1.3 Human Factors/Ergonomics

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Does Your Office Fit You? Workplace Ergonomics (H&S)
Instructors: Multiple Staff
Course Number: 40356 | Ceu's: 0.1
Explain/discuss MSD’s, their causes and what we can do to prevent them. Look at implications of computerized work environment on visual/motor/body systems. Discuss risk factors in work environment. Supply helpful tips about healthy work habits to make you feel better.

Movement Toward Wellness in the Office (H&S/W)
Instructors: Maren Channer
Course Number: 40425 | Ceu's: 0.1
Understand health trends impacting today’s workforce. Understand relationship of employee health to business effectiveness. Recognize areas where informed space planning can play preventative role. Understand links between physical, cognitive and social wellbeing as impacts of performance.

Ergonomics for the Mobile Workforce (H&S/W)
Instructors: Maren Channer
Course Number: 40401 | Ceu's: 0.1
Understand trends in workplace affecting worker health/wellbeing. Understand how trends are changing and why we need to educate/support. Understand how to plan work environments ergonomically prepared for needs of resident and mobile worker. Understand research related to worker wellbeing.

Bodies in Motion: How adequate movement promotes both comfort and academic progress (H&S/W)
Instructors: Phil Dieter Breithecker
Course Number: 40394 | Ceu's: 0.1
Architects will be better equipped to design facilities that promote ergonomic health of students. They will understand that students need solutions which facilitate the body’s intrinsic need for movement/variation and that school is the primary social institution responsible for health promotion.

Train the Trainer in Office Ergonomics (H&S/W)
Instructors: Jonathan Puleio
Course Number: 40419 | Ceu's: 0.6
Enable Humanscale employees to effectively educate audiences on principle of ergonomics. Attendees will learn address musculoskeletal risk factors. Applied exercises are administered throughout the course for hands on experience. Course runs 6-8 hours depending on class size/participation.

Colors Unveiled....What Your Favorite Colors Says About Hue (HS)
Instructors: Denise Turner
Course Number: 40047 | Ceu's: 0.1
Will the unveiled truth behind color’s electromagnetic field and its direct correlation to physiology and psychology and their significance for built environment. Indentify socio-economic effects of the historical significance of color families and how they influence consumer’s decisions.

Holistic Ergonomics: Giving Full Attention to All of Office Work (H&S/W)
Instructors: Multiple Staff
Course Number: 40449 | Ceu's: 0.1
Analyze office tasks, define work activities, apply holistic ergonomics.

The Adaptable Workplace: A Student Workshop (H&S/W)
Instructors: Alan Hedge
Course Number: 40415 | Ceu's: 0.4
Appreciate that productivity is not a unitary concept and can be measured. Appreciate history of productivity measurement and recent advances. Review research on ergonomic products, programs, environment conditions and green designs can improve productivity. Plan for measuring productivity impact.

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