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).
Any employees working with chemicals, e.g. laboratory staff, manufacturing employees.
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.
Participants should be confident to work with chemicals and to minimise the effects of chemicals on health.
Constrution supervisors, managers, foremen and safety officers.
Participants develop their knowledge of occupational health and ergonomics by learning how to identify and control common health risks found on construction sites.
This training will enable attendees to recognise workplace hazards, ensure those hazards are controlled and the protect the health of construction workers.
Employee who spends most of the working day based at a desk.
To give office employees an awareness of health effects associated with office/desk based work.
This course will give employees an awareness of health hazards in the office environment and the knowledge of how to control them.
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.
To give participants an awareness of the health risks associated with process manufacturing/assembly envoirnments.
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.
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.
To provide employees with the knowledge required to carry out risk assessments on biological agents the may be exposed to in the workplace.
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.
Safety Personnel/Supervisors/Employees involved in carrying out ergonomic risk assessments in the workplace.
To enable participants to assess tasks which pose excessive loading on the upper body.
Risk assessment tools are a practical and focused method of addressing ergonomic hazards, repetitive work and awkward postures in the workplace.
We provide Occupational Health and Ergonomics training services and advice. Training programmes are developed based on specific workplace and employee requirements
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