Workhealth Training Courses

Training

Working envoinments are constantly changing with the introduction of new technologies, substances, work processes and new forms of employment and work organisation. These changes may introduce new health hazards for employees.

The European Occupational Safety and Health Agency reports that musculoskeletal disorders are the most common occupational illness in Europe. Neurological disorders (including workplace stress), skin diseases and respiratory diseases are the next most widely reported occupational illnesses (EU-OSHA 2016).


  • Training programmes can be developed on any aspect of occupational health and ergonomics
  • Training can be tailored to specific company requirements
  • Topics encompass all aspects of exposure, chemical, biological and psychosocial and risks
  • Gives employees clear understanding of health hazards in their particluar workplace
  • Demonstrates how health and ergonomic hazards are measured and controlled

Here is a list of some courses we offer:

1 Day Course

Target Audience

Any employees working with chemicals, e.g. laboratory staff, manufacturing employees.

Aim

To enable attendess to identify hazards associated with the chemicals they work with and to carry out a risk assesment on the tasks they perform.


Content

  • Routes of entry and health effects of chemicals
  • Identify chemical warning labels
  • Outline measures for controlling chemical exposure
  • Overview of Personal Protective Equipment (Respiratory Protective Equipment and Skin Protection)
  • Carry practical chemical risk assesment
  • Outline of relevant Irish legislative requirements [Chemical Agents Regulations 2001, CoP 2016, Safety,Health and Welfare at Work (Carcinogens) Regulations 2001, REACH Regulation 1907/2006/EC, CLP Regulation 1272/2008/EC]

Benefits

Participants should be confident to work with chemicals and to minimise the effects of chemicals on health.

1 Day Course

Target Audience

Constrution supervisors, managers, foremen and safety officers.

Aim

Participants develop their knowledge of occupational health and ergonomics by learning how to identify and control common health risks found on construction sites.


Content

  • Controlling airbourne dust hazards e.g. respirable crystalline silica, mould, fibres, diesel partiulates
  • Handling awkward postures and repetitive tasks that may contribute to musculoskeletal disorders
  • Managing shift work
  • Working with excessive noise and vibration
  • Managing exposure to chemicals e.g. glues, paints, epoxy resins, cement
  • Working outdoors: exposure to hot and cold working environments
  • Carrying out risk assessments
  • Address measures needed to control health risks from construction activities
  • Familiarisation of Irish legislation relevant to these hazards along with employer obligations
  • Use of HSA approved ART risk assessment tools for manual handling and repetitive tasks

Benefits

This training will enable attendees to recognise workplace hazards, ensure those hazards are controlled and the protect the health of construction workers.

1/2 Day Course

Target Audience

Employee who spends most of the working day based at a desk.

Aim

To give office employees an awareness of health effects associated with office/desk based work.


Content

  • Health impact of sedentary postures
  • Computer screen work and eye health
  • Mental workload and impact on employees
  • Ergonomic workstation setup
  • Awareness of psychosocial risks and their prevention
  • Indoor air quality and potential impact on employees
  • Sources and control of non-ionising radiation

Benefits

This course will give employees an awareness of health hazards in the office environment and the knowledge of how to control them.

1/2 Day Course

Target Audience

Manufacturing employees, supervisors, team leadrs who work on assembly lines or who carry out repetitive tasks (physical or mental). The course would be of particular interest to the manufacturing sector e.g. semi conductor, pharmaceuticals, medical devices and food processing.

Aim

To give participants an awareness of the health risks associated with process manufacturing/assembly envoirnments.


Content

  • An outline of work related musculosketetal disorders and how they can be prevented
  • How to risk assess a work task or posture using the HSA approved tools ART and MAC
  • An awareness of psychosocial risks and how they can impact employee health
  • Noise and vibration, health effects and control measures
  • Managing shift work
  • An overview of the Irish legislation pertaining to these hazards
  • Carry out risk assessments on workplace hazards

Benefits

Participants will be able to identify health related hazards in their workplace and understand how these hazards can be controlled. Participants will gain an awareness of the risk factors which contribute to work related musculoskeletal disorders and how to manange these factors.

Target Audience

Employees working with biological agents e.g. bacteria, viruses, blood, urine, enzymes and laboratory animals. It is applicable to groups such as laboratory employees, researchers, healthcare workers.

Aim

To provide employees with the knowledge required to carry out risk assessments on biological agents the may be exposed to in the workplace.


Content

  • Familiarisation with types of biological agents present in the workplace
  • Application of control measures for different biological hazards
  • Over of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work (Biological Agents) Regulations 2013 (SI No. 572 of 2013) and the Safety Health and Welfare at Work (Chemical Agents) Regulations 2001 (SI No.619 of 2001)

Benefits

To give empmloyees and understanding of the hazards associated with the biological agents they work with along with the confidence to complete biological agent risk assessments.

1 Day Course

Target Audience

Safety Personnel/Supervisors/Employees involved in carrying out ergonomic risk assessments in the workplace.

Aim

To enable participants to assess tasks which pose excessive loading on the upper body.


Content

  • Principles of physical and cognitive ergonomics
  • Risk reduction and control
  • Overview of popular ergonomic assessments tools: RULA, REBA, NASA-TLX and ART
  • Assessing the level of musculoskeletal disorders in a workplace using validated questionnaires
  • Focus on the HSA approved ART tool for assessment the of the risk of Upper Limb Disorders while carrying out repetitive tasks

Benefits

Risk assessment tools are a practical and focused method of addressing ergonomic hazards, repetitive work and awkward postures in the workplace.