Ergonomics Hazard Assessment

PART ONE:

Ergonomics Hazard Assessment

Textbook:

Stack, T., Ostrom, L. T., & Wilhelmsen, C. A. (2016). Occupational ergonomics: A practical approach. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

• Chapter 8: Psychophysics
• Chapter 9: Hand Tools

Instructions

Course Project Part 1: Ergonomics Hazard Assessment

In Units IV, VII, you will be building a course project that will assess ergonomic risks and provide strategies to improve a workstation of your choice. During Unit IV, you will focus on the ergonomics-related hazard assessment. Part one is unit four (4)

Select a workstation that you are familiar with (preferably one that you work with regularly or have worked with previously).

Perform an ergonomics hazard assessment on that workstation.

1. What are the potential stressors of that workstation?
2. What are the potential ergonomic risks and hazards?
3. What type of injury could they cause? Explain each hazard in detail.

Your ergonomics hazard assessment must be two pages in length.

As part of your hazard assessment, you will include a minimum of two outside sources to support your findings.

One source must be from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) website, which can be accessed by clicking the following link: https://www.osha.gov/

PART TWO:

Ergonomic Assessment Determining Safety

Textbook:

Stack, T., Ostrom, L. T., & Wilhelmsen, C. A. (2016). Occupational ergonomics: A practical approach. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

• Chapter 14: How to Conduct an Ergonomic Assessment and Ergonomic Assessment Tools
• Chapter 15: Ergonomics in the Healthcare Industry

Instructions

Course Project Part 2: Determining Safety

Part two is unit seven (7)

In Unit IV, you began a course project in which you reviewed the risks associated with your workstation of choice. During this unit, you will build upon that project to identify whether or not your workstation is ergonomically sound and to determine how the safety can be improved.

1.  Start by documenting your findings and comparing them to the tables found in the textbook
2.  Make a determination as to whether your space is ergonomically safe.
3. Look specifically at the Rapid Upper Limb Assessment (RULA) and the Rapid Entire Body Assessment (REBA).
4. Next, make suggestions for how it can be improved.

Finally, conduct research on ergonomics-related regulatory efforts and standards.

1. Are there recommended safety standards or Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recommendations?
2. What are they?
3. Also, explain if you feel the safety standards are enough to keep employees safe or if more needs to be done.

(Hint: Make sure you read the Unit VII Lesson!)

The assignment must be   two pages in length.

All sources must be cited and referenced according to APA standards.