Investigate incidents involving workplace ergonomics to root cause without suppressing reporting.
Ergonomics in the Work Environment
Learn to design, measure and defend your organisation's approach to workplace ergonomics.
📍 Tunis🗓️ 5 training days📚 4 modules🎓 Accredited certificate
5intensive training days
4scientific modules
8training sessions
32detailed points
Course Overview
Regulators judge workplace ergonomics on evidence of application, not on the existence of a document. Almost every serious incident involving this aspect of occupational health and safety was preceded by a signal somebody noticed and nobody escalated. Each session closes with a decision the participant must justify about the occupational health and safety discipline in their own setting. The programme takes participants through workplace ergonomics end to end, from framing the problem to closing it out. The most reliable predictor of sound the practice within occupational health and safety is whether anyone reviews it when nothing has gone wrong. Most organisations already have a policy on this area of occupational health and safety; far fewer can show it working. The programme builds the judgement to know which parts of workplace ergonomics to standardise and which to leave flexible. Participants come from operational and oversight roles, and both perspectives on the occupational health and safety capability are used deliberately. Participants leave with a first-ninety-days plan for the occupational health and safety discipline rather than a set of notes.
Expected Learning Outcomes
Document decisions about workplace ergonomics in a form that remains useful after the people change.
Sequence improvements to workplace ergonomics so that each step makes the next one easier.
Build the safety case or justification supporting workplace ergonomics.
Close out corrective actions on workplace ergonomics rather than leaving them open.
Integrate workplace ergonomics into the management of change process.
Plan the handover of workplace ergonomics so that capability is not lost when key staff move on.
Who Should Attend
Experienced practitioners formalising an approach to workplace ergonomics that has grown up informally.
Human resources staff handling the people consequences of workplace ergonomics.
Health and safety officers and advisers responsible for workplace ergonomics.
Internal auditors verifying controls over workplace ergonomics.
Officers preparing reports on workplace ergonomics for boards or oversight committees.
Engineering and maintenance staff whose work involves workplace ergonomics.
Course Modules
Workplace ergonomics: leading indicators, audit and assurance
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Why a good control on workplace ergonomics stops being used
- Assign responsibility for keeping documentation of workplace ergonomics current.
- Investigate the last incident involving workplace ergonomics to root cause, not to immediate cause.
- Record who is authorised to work on workplace ergonomics and when authorisation expires.
- Verify contractor competence and method statements for workplace ergonomics.
Session 2The decisions in workplace ergonomics that cannot be delegated
- Check that records of workplace ergonomics answer the questions likely to be asked.
- Decide what will be stopped to create capacity for workplace ergonomics.
- Set escalation thresholds for workplace ergonomics that work out of hours.
- Rank the weaknesses in workplace ergonomics by consequence rather than by ease of fixing.
Workplace ergonomics: occupational health and long-term exposure
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Making near-miss reporting on workplace ergonomics safe to do
- Verify permits covering workplace ergonomics are issued by someone competent to assess the hazard.
- Rehearse the emergency and rescue plan for workplace ergonomics, do not just publish it.
- Establish who is informed, consulted and accountable in workplace ergonomics.
- Test that protective equipment specified for workplace ergonomics fits and is maintained.
Session 2Who is competent to work on workplace ergonomics, and how you know
- Check the procedure for workplace ergonomics against how the work is actually done.
- Check that lessons from workplace ergonomics reached other sites doing similar work.
- Confirm that reporting on workplace ergonomics reaches the people who can act.
- Confirm the training cycle sustaining competence in workplace ergonomics is current.
Workplace ergonomics: competence, authorisation and supervision
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Auditing workplace ergonomics in the field rather than in the file
- Apply management of change to any modification affecting workplace ergonomics.
- Write down the assumptions underpinning the approach to workplace ergonomics.
- Record what was learned when workplace ergonomics did not go as planned.
- Identify single points of dependency in workplace ergonomics and reduce them.
Session 2Writing a procedure for workplace ergonomics people can follow at 3 a.m.
- Close out corrective actions on workplace ergonomics with a named owner and date.
- Compare the cost of workplace ergonomics with the cost of its absence.
- Ask the people doing workplace ergonomics what makes the procedure hard to follow.
- Identify the hazards in workplace ergonomics and rank them by consequence, not by frequency.
Workplace ergonomics: emergency response and rescue
2 sessions · 8 pointsSession 1Where workplace ergonomics typically breaks, and why
- Prepare the evidence pack a regulator would ask for on workplace ergonomics.
- Map the handovers in workplace ergonomics between functions and secure them.
- Confirm isolation and lockout arrangements for workplace ergonomics are proven before work starts.
- Name a single owner for each element of workplace ergonomics.
Session 2Getting other functions to support workplace ergonomics
- Define the trigger that would require workplace ergonomics to be redesigned.
- Assess long-term health exposure created by workplace ergonomics and arrange surveillance.
- Build the competence framework that supports workplace ergonomics.
- Confirm that contractual obligations around workplace ergonomics are understood.
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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- Coffee Break
- Closing Ceremony
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