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Ergonomics Training
Office Ergonomics Training
Ergonomics for the Desk-Bound
This seminar is our most popular seminar for office workers. Most companies start with a seminar such as this to educate their employees about how to avoid repetitive strain and back injuries. Employees learn the proper way to set up their office workstation to minimize discomfort and maximize productivity, as well as practice some wonderful stretches to relax tense and sore muscles. This seminar is taught as a brief, one hour presentation in your boardroom or meeting room.
Ergonomics for the Desk-Bound (virtual seminar)
Our most popular Office Ergonomics seminar is now being taught virtually for all to see. We have updated it to include lots of tips and tricks for people working from home. Let us deliver this seminar to your staff and teach them how they can avoid neck, shoulder, wrist and lower back strain with proper ergonomic set-up and stretching routines.
Train the Assessor on Basic Office Ergonomic Set-up
This one day seminar teaches you to set up your coworkers’ workstations in a proper way. This course enables in-house people to do their own basic ergonomics. Learn what products to order, how to help your coworkers sit/stand comfortably and how to use your equipment well to reduce injuries. Certificates are provided for participants.
Mini Group Seminar
This session can be done in approximately 20 minutes with a group of individuals who all bring their chairs to a common area or meeting room. A consultant sits with them and explains how they can adjust their chairs, how they should be sitting, heights for keyboard, mouse, monitor etc. They are instructed to go back to their workstations and adjust them properly and the consultant comes around to check and make sure they are set up properly.
Dynamic Strengthening and Stretching for the Postural Muscles – Great Team Building Session!
This seminar is a highly interactive one hour “Lunch & Learn” session that teaches participants why they are prone to poor posture from working at a computer and how to effectively strengthen and stretch those muscles to reduce pain associated with poor posture. Each participant is given an elastic therapy band that they will use during the class as well as strength and stretching exercise sheets. The seminar provides at least 40 minutes of fun, interactive exercises that each participant does together with the instructor, with clear instructions on how to do them properly.
Keeping Your Back Healthy at Work and at Play
This seminar can be done in 1-1.5 hours or added onto the Ergonomics for the Desk-Bound in an extra half (.5) hour. It focuses specifically on how the back works and how to prevent injuring it while doing common activities such as lifting, bending, reaching, sitting, gardening, snow shoveling, etc.
Industrial Ergonomics Training
Driver’s Injury Prevention through Ergonomics
This course focuses specifically on ergonomic issues with people who drive frequently or long distances for their job. This seminar is designed to teach employees how their body works and how to prevent injuring it while driving, lifting and laptop use in the vehicle. It incorporates stretches that can be done to prevent discomfort, both in and out of the vehicle. This seminar can be done alone or added onto another course, like an office ergonomics seminar or the industrial seminars, to add another element of job tasks.
Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention for the Industrial Worker
This course is 2-3 hours in length and instructs workers about the risk factors present in their work environment and how they can mitigate that risk. This hands-on practical approach is tailored to suit the needs of individual clients. We often customize this training to your work environment by taking a tour ahead of time and using pictures or video (if allowed) to show specific examples that employees can relate to. We have specific experience in oil & gas, laboratory, hospital, electronics manufacturing, warehousing, and brewery.
Fit4Work Program
The Anderson Ergonomics Consulting Inc. FIT4WORK program is a comprehensive educational program that teaches your employees what they need to know about their bodies to protect themselves from musculoskeletal soft tissue injuries. It is a customized training and coaching program that teaches employees how to perform their work with safe body movements and within safe limits, as well as how to keep their body strong and flexible enough to perform the jobs they have to do. This program is based on 4 pillars – CUSTOMIZE, EDUCATE, INTEGRATE, and MEASURE and focuses training on safe movement principles, ergonomics, coaching and measurement for success.
Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention for Safety Leaders (Virtual and in-house)
This course is designed for Safety Leaders who want to learn more about implementing an injury prevention and ergonomics program into a company. By the end of this course, safety leaders will better understand where to focus their efforts to reduce the risk of Musculoskeletal Injuries in their workplace. Through the use of examples, participants will be able to target the risks in their workplace, and learn the key measures to implement to reduce those risks. Contact us to learn more about this course.
Warm-Up, Stretch and Strengthen For Work
Our stretching programs provide training, to employee “leaders”, on how to lead a stretching program within their company. Once the “leaders” have been trained in the proper way to stretch and how to motivate a group of their peers, all employees can benefit from stretching at scheduled times of day to improve blood circulation, muscle relaxation, and reduced stress.
Ergonomics for Laboratory Environments
This course is 1-1.5 hours in length and is specifically designed for people who work in lab environments. This course covers the risk factors for injury associated with phlebotomy, pipetting, microscope use, lifting, working on computers, etc. We have developed a training pamphlet to go specifically with this course.
Tool Box Talks
These are short pieces of information, provided in the form of recipe-style cards, that discuss specific risk factors for injury in the workplace and tips to reduce the risks. Each card holds one risk factor and a discussion about it. These can be used by a Safety Manager, Area Supervisor, or Safety team member to hold interesting and informative discussions about ergonomics in the workplace.
