Ergonomics in education and training / at work

The HOORAY(Youth for Youth’s Mental Health through Physical Activity) project aims to address this challenge by exploring the impact and positive influence physical activity and sport can have on improving the overall well-being and mental health of young people.

Almost all nursery practitioners have experienced pain in the workplace, with back pain a particular issue, according to new research. In this article, Charlotte Goddard finds out what managers can do to alleviate the problem.

As an employer, you must protect your workers from the risk of injury from hazardous manual handling in the workplace. Manual handling means transporting or supporting a load by hand or bodily force. It includes lifting, putting down, pushing, pulling, carrying or moving loads. A load can be an object, person or animal.

Purzelbaum (Somersault) brings momentum into everyday kindergarten life.
Using simple and practical means, Purzelbaum ensures more exercise and healthy nutrition in kindergarten.

Because of the measures to contain the coronavirus, many people are required to work from home. This may not always be as good as working in the office.

Each apprentice goes through different departments during their practical period in the supermarket. During on-site instruction, apprentices are made aware of the respective risks. Detailed information is provided in the state vocational schools in their own Spar academy classes, whose curriculum is tailored to work at Spar.

Online training course on design of human-centred workplaces

The main objective of TRAIN4HCWORK is the development and implementation of a new online course (in English, Spanish, German and French) to strengthen the knowledge and skills of targeted professionals in the design of human-centred workplaces.

For apprentices, regular sports lessons are essential. Unfortunately, accidents often happen here. Various preventive measures help to reduce the risk of accidents.

The prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) among children and adolescents is quite high and many young people enter the labour force with pre-existing musculoskeletal problems which can potentially be exacerbated by work.

The mission of the Center for Public Health Workforce Development is to provide a link between our faculty and practice partners in teaching, research and the practice of public health. The continuing education activities are designed to strengthen the cooperation between the Center for Public Health Workforce Development and state and local public health practitioners.

Far too many children have accidents every year in school sports, whose injuries could have been prevented with the right preparation for lessons and the right forms of exercise, games or organization. With the web application schulsportideen.de, the Unfallkasse Rheinland-Pfalz gives physical education teachers a tool that provides basic theoretical information on school sports and the right content for safe and attractive physical education classes.

There are a number of physical health and safety matters to consider when using technology devices within schools including use of wireless networks, ergonomics, using interactive whiteboards and projectors and the risk of photosensitive epilepsy.

Are your students receiving quality physical education each day? A quality PE program that meets national guidelines is the cornerstone for a physically active school and helps support improved classroom behavior, physical fitness, and standardized test scores.

Move! is a national physical functional capacity monitoring and feedback system for Finnish 5th and 8th grade pupils. It produces information that can be combined with the extensive health check-ups performed for the 5th and 8th grade pupils. The main purpose of the system is to encourage pupils to independently take care of their physical functional capacity.

With the help of staff, the intervention creates a work environment designed to be compatible with an ageing workforce, taking into account employees’ needs and abilities in different stages of their lives.

Over 99% of SAP’s employees work at the office, from home, or are mobile. Desk-based work is the norm in the software industry, which is also the case for most SAP employees. As a result, they are exposed to ergonomic problems in the work environment.

In light of the Official Campaign Partners of EU-OSHA ‘Healthy Workplaces Lighten the Load 2020-2022’, TIC Council and DEKRA organized a joint webinar series comprised of three webinars.

TPR stands for Total Physical Response. It's a way of helping students learn a language through physical actions. These actions can be done in small environments, either at home or in class.

visual systems designed for active environments

Lü produces state of the art audio visual systems designed for active environments.

A free online resource

As new technology continues to offer us lots of amazing devices that do incredible things, our understanding of what their long-term use can do to our bodies has failed to keep pace.

Helping to make a good and healthy school

The design and furnishing of classrooms are important factors for successful learning and teaching ...

Since the 1980s, the BG BAU is supporting the interplant training centres ...

Examples of good practice for ergonomically designed machines

What characterizes an ergonomically designed machine? What aspects must be considered during design? Where can I find relevant information?

Bewegte Schule Österreich (school on the Move Austria) provides a guideline for Good Practice to help schools prevent and fight MSDs for their students, to improve that and to motivate schools to do more and to share experiences.

Practical tools with regard to ergonomics and skin prevention were developed for hairdressers, such as a desk research with good practices from 17 countries, an instruction video, 2 manuals with background information for teachers (ergonomics and preventing skin complaints), visually supporting material, namelijk ‘take care of yourself’ sheets with some main concerns.

The COVID-19 pandemic has seminally changed the way that education systems within Canada function. Now, with schools moving to re-open, we know that it will not simply be a return to learning as it was.

This smartphone application (app) delivers a basic ergonomic assessment by stepping the user through a series of diagrams and questions to pinpoint musculoskeletal pain, identify possible sources, and discover practical solutions.

It is well known that MSDs are a global, public health problem because they have high prevalence around the world, which means enormous expenses for health insurance and community in general, and are the most common cause of chronic non-malignant pain and incompetence.

In the world of work often heavy goods have to be carried by workers. Lifting and carrying heavy goods involves risks for health and safety. In 10 short episodes Napo shows which hazards can occur when lifting and carrying heavy goods and how to lift and carry the right way.

The Napo website offers a collection of 14 different Napo videos dealing with prevention of MSDs.

OSH Wiki article providing information on Risk Factors and Effects of MSDs in Teachers and Teaching Assistants.

This online course is a result of years of teaching. All activities and teaching methods have been tested in a school environment with students. The participants will obtain a comprehensive picture of the schools on the Move activities that have been developed in Finland, the integrated research, and new methods of physically active learning.

As a part of the key project the schools on the Move Programme was expanded to upper secondary education in 2017. The goal of the Mobile Learning program is to increase mobility and the ability to study at secondary level and in higher education.

The PIBYRP technique is a simple and ergonomic cutting technique for preventing MSD. The PIBYRP technique is labeled by OMC (Organisation Mondiale de la Coiffure) and is a simple and quick cutting technique developed by Raphael Perrier.

"TigerKids - Kindergarten aktiv" is a nationwide program for health education in kindergartens ...

The education is divided into different modules of coherent units. Duration and course of the studies is self-determined by each student, according to private and on-the-job duties.

Gut Drauf (In a good mood) is a program of the Federal Centre for Health Education (BZgA) to improve the health of girls and boys between 12 and 18 years. One special focus called Tutmirgut is aimed at children aged 5 to 11 years.

Upsi is a comic character, created by the Accident Insurance Berlin to rise awareness for OSH topics in a playful way. Eight books and one radio play have been released until now.

Products can be designed with appropriate consideration for safety and health aspects by the application of standards governing ergonomics. In order for greater consideration to be given to the standards in this area during the design process than has previously been the case, knowledge of these standards and their content must be communicated more strongly during the training of engineers and designers.

The Report "Movement and learning – the concept of moving schools” (“Bewegte Schulen”) by Gerold Brägger, Heinz Hundeloh, Norbert Posse and Hermann Städtler is supposed to promote the concept for improvement of children’s health by sports and physical activities at school.

Actually sitting is not really a problem. You sit down, and after a little time you stand up again. But the time span between sitting down and getting up has steadily grown longer in our modern society.

A program for physical exercises for school children to keep them active and healthy.

The Federal Working Group for Posture and Exercise Promotion eV (BAG) is a non-profit association that was founded in 1961. Since then, the BAG has been dealing with movement in the context of development, health and education in a differentiated manner in theory and practice.

An onsite department is able to provide OSH and ergonomics teaching in other departments, including on the MBA business studies course.

In ITI Latur Welder Trade Instructors and trainees during training course use to complain about work related MSDs, resulted in abscentism from training practicals. An attempt was made to aware and prevent MSDs.

Napo wants to ensure that everyone can work at home productively, and as safely and healthily as possible. With the support of the Boss and co-worker Napette, Napo has some good advice, and says: "Stop the pandemic, work at home… and work safely!"

school plays a vital role in the formation and preparation of the child in all areas of life, including education in the prevention of diseases. The book "Ergonomics at school - The school of ergonomics" (in Italian: “Ergonomia a scuola.

The "Arbocatalogus" provides practical information on how to achieve the desired level of healthy and safe working in hairdressing salons. This concerns physical stress, allergenic effects and psychosocial stress.

During the educational process the students acquire current knowledge regarding ergonomics, safety and health protection, analysis and assessment of occupational risk, safety and work hygiene management.

Sveral curricula for safety and health in schools of the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education,University of Maribor, Faculty of Education.

This short, wordless video (apart from the title in Spanish) provides basic advice and tips on improvising to make using a laptop at home more ergonomic, for example in the context of sudden home working enforced by Covid-19.

In cooperation with the Beltz Verlag, IQES has created online and IQES seminars, a set of 50 methods for active learning: The set of cards contains 50 Exercises, which are not inserted in the phase of the rhythm of instruction, or seminars, mobile and support, to attract the attention of the Participants.

Ergonomics is the science of optimising environments, equipment and tasks so that children can work, study and perform at their best. This guide is intended to help parents and carers support children of all ages in studying from home ...

The 'Risk-reduction through design’ Award is sponsored by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (CIEHF).

An interactive website and PDF file with information about how to stay healthy when working at home.

Information about bone health, healthy nutrition, ergonomics for the whole family. Our bones support us and allow us to move. They protect our brain, heart, and other organs from injury.