Webinar Recording: Participatory Ergonomics & Manual Handling
This presentation will discuss how “Participatory Ergonomic” principles can be considered and implemented to increase workplace involvement in effectively controlling manual handling risks.
About the webinar:
Preventing manual handling injuries continues to be a challenge for many organisations.
This webinar includes:
- A case study illustrating the holistic causes of manual handling injuries;
- Information about hazardous manual tasks (not focusing just on the manual handling);
- An introduction to Participatory Ergonomics, describing how it can apply to policies & procedures, workplace application and training.
About the presenters:
Our presenters are The Recovre Group’s Rachel Doody and Emma Morgan. Rachel is a Physiotherapist with years of clinical experience and as a Rehabilitation Consultant. Emma is an Occupational Therapist who manages a national training and consulting team. Both have worked extensively with a wide range of customers and industries to address to issue of manual handling.
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Published 21 May, 2014 | Updated 12 February, 2019