Integrate ergonomic workstation design into the management of change process.
Designing Ergonomic Workstations to Reduce Spinal Injuries
A practical programme in ergonomic workstation design for professionals who are accountable for results, not just awareness.
📍 Abu Dhabi🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Regulators judge ergonomic workstation design on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. The cost of an incident involving the practice within occupational health and safety lands on production, insurance, licence and reputation at once. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about the wider occupational health and safety agenda in their own setting. Mature organisations treat ergonomic workstation design as a standing capability rather than a project that finishes. Improvement in the occupational health and safety capability stalls when it depends on one capable individual rather than a defined method. The programme works equally well for those formalising the wider occupational health and safety agenda for the first time and those improving an existing approach. The programme takes participants through ergonomic workstation design end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. Participants develop a defensible line of reasoning for the choices they make about this strand of occupational health and safety. It closes by agreeing the smallest change to the occupational health and safety capability that would make a visible difference.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Translate policy on ergonomic workstation design into procedures that hold up under day-to-day pressure.
Close out corrective actions on ergonomic workstation design rather than leaving them open.
Audit the application of controls on ergonomic workstation design in the field, not on paper.
Diagnose whether a problem in ergonomic workstation design is one of design, resourcing or discipline.
Agree the first three actions on ergonomic workstation design that will be taken on returning to work.
Design emergency response and rescue arrangements covering ergonomic workstation design.
Who Should Attend
Consultants and advisers supporting clients on ergonomic workstation design.
Engineering and maintenance staff whose work involves ergonomic workstation design.
Contractor and subcontractor supervisors performing ergonomic workstation design.
Facility and plant managers accountable for ergonomic workstation design.
Training officers building competence in ergonomic workstation design.
Compliance and governance staff whose remit includes ergonomic workstation design.
Course Modules
Ergonomic workstation design: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Holding contractors on ergonomic workstation design to your own standard
- Record who is authorised to work on ergonomic workstation design and when authorisation expires.
- Check the procedure for ergonomic workstation design against how the work is actually done.
- Agree what will be standardised in ergonomic workstation design and what will not.
- Check that records of ergonomic workstation design answer the questions likely to be asked.
Session 2Making near-miss reporting on ergonomic workstation design safe to do
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for ergonomic workstation design, do not just publish it.
- Test the procedure for ergonomic workstation design against a realistic scenario.
- Draft the minimum viable safety procedure for ergonomic workstation design.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for ergonomic workstation design.
Ergonomic workstation design: contractors and shared workplaces
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1The exposure from ergonomic workstation design that shows up years later
- Arrange the handover of ergonomic workstation design so capability survives staff changes.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for ergonomic workstation design are proven before work starts.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in ergonomic workstation design is current.
- Verify permits covering ergonomic workstation design are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
Session 2Rescue arrangements for ergonomic workstation design that have been rehearsed
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of ergonomic workstation design current.
- Make the reporting route for hazards in ergonomic workstation design short and non-punitive.
- Rank the weaknesses in ergonomic workstation design by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
- Build the competence framework that supports ergonomic workstation design.
Ergonomic workstation design: hazard identification and risk assessment
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Assessing the hazards in ergonomic workstation design without turning it into paperwork
- Investigate the last incident involving ergonomic workstation design to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Prepare the summary of ergonomic workstation design that senior management will read.
- Rehearse the briefing on ergonomic workstation design that would follow an incident.
- Map the handovers in ergonomic workstation design between functions and secure them.
Session 2Getting other functions to support ergonomic workstation design
- Set leading indicators for ergonomic workstation design that predict rather than count.
- Check that lessons from ergonomic workstation design reached other sites doing similar work.
- Ask the people doing ergonomic workstation design what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Close out corrective actions on ergonomic workstation design with a named owner and date.
Ergonomic workstation design: protective equipment and its verification
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Who answers for ergonomic workstation design, and to whom
- Verify six months later that changes to ergonomic workstation design have held.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by ergonomic workstation design and arrange surveillance.
- Identify the hazards in ergonomic workstation design and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around ergonomic workstation design are understood.
Session 2The paperwork for ergonomic workstation design that is actually needed
- Test that protective equipment specified for ergonomic workstation design fits and is maintained.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in ergonomic workstation design.
- Identify the data already collected that bears on ergonomic workstation design.
- Confirm that reporting on ergonomic workstation design reaches the people who can act.
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- Closing Ceremony
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