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The Adaptable Workplace: A Student Workshop (H&S/W)
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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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The course focuses on the productivity impact of the design of the office workplace environment, with a focus on the effects of ergonomic products, programs and indoor environmental conditions. The course starts by describing the brief history of productivity metrics and the range of measures that can be used to guage these, including the recent developments of the work stream analysis method for analyzing the productivity of computer users. It describes the conceptual relationship between work-related musculoskeletal disorders that arise from poor ergonomic design and productivity. This section will clarify the concept of productivity as an operational metric that can be objectively and/or subjectively measured for office workers and establish the importance of productivity measures in helping to make the business case for better design…
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Alan Hedge
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Classroom Instruction / Lecture with multi-media
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Skill Building (application)
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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
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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.
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Movement Toward Wellness in the Office (H&S/W)
Instructors:
Maren Channer
Course Number:
40425
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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.
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Ergonomics for the Mobile Workforce (H&S/W)
Instructors:
Maren Channer
Course Number:
40401
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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.
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"Designing Healthy Work Enviornments"
Instructors:
Humanscale Staff
Course Number:
5944
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0.1
Guidance on designing a healthy work environment, exploring current client oriented challenges in proactively addressing ergonomic concerns bridging the gap between workplace aesthetics and functionality. Information on how organizations can ear LEED-CI credits will also be provided.
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Bodies in Motion: How adequate movement promotes both comfort and academic progress (H&S/W)
Instructors:
Phil Dieter Breithecker
Course Number:
40394
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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.
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Train the Trainer in Office Ergonomics (H&S/W)
Instructors:
Jonathan Puleio
Course Number:
40419
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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.
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Colors Unveiled....What Your Favorite Colors Says About Hue (HS)
Instructors:
Denise Turner
Course Number:
40047
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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.
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