For a healthy and safe work culture in Nepal
Manual handling and backaches
Duration: 2 days
Objective
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
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Understand various occupational risk factors that lead to backaches |
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Understand the connection between the environment, method of work and backache incidents |
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Apply the principles of ergonomics to prevent backache incidents |
Target Group
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Occupational Health Doctors/ Nurses/ HA |
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Occupational Health and Safety practitioners |
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Health and safety officers |
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Health and safety committee members |
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Production/ Maintenance Engineers |
Topics
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Back anatomy and physiology |
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Identifying risk factors at work |
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Task analysis |
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Workplace and work technique assessment with load features |
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Economic impact to organizations as a result of workers suffering from backache |
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Back pain incident control programme |