Hello. This is a continuation of last week's lecture on WMSDs. Yeah! My favorite!

HF 312 Introduction to work-related musculoskeletal disorders, risk assessment, and task design

I spoke about this in class last week. I apologize for the disadvantage that you guys are in because Dr. Kring and I are in the process of creating this class curriculum. I encourage you all to take advantage of the benefits of your position and help us create the course for subsequent classes for years to come! I contacted my aunt, who has been in education for 30 years, to give me some good information about creating courses and curriculum, etc. She told me about www.ucop.edu, which is an online resource for educators hosted by the University of California system. It includes guidelines for setting goals and objectives for courses, as well as information on how to ensure your evaluation measures match those goals and objectives. If any of you would like to help in our efforts, please peruse this website to help structure your suggestions.

Thank you again for your participation in this class. Ergonomics is one of my passions - I'm blushing...I know it is a bit geeky - and it is my pleasure to help teach this class. I want to be sure I do my part to make it a good course. Your help is much appreciated.

Best,

Ashley

It's March! Wow, time flies.

Here is the lecture for today. It is incomplete, as it will take two weeks of class to finish. The slides carry through Trigger Finger. I will replace the slides with the completed version before next week's lecture.

Best,

Ashley

Work Releated Musculoskeletal Disorders (WMSDs), Risk Assessment and Task Design

NIOSH Lifting Equation Application and Problem Solving

Anatomy and Biomechanics of Manual Handling

For Friday, February 19th, we will meet but not hold a regularly scheduled lecture. You will instead meet in your groups to work on the following:

1. Create a contact list with the names, emails, and phone numbers of all of your group members in a word document or excel spreadsheet. (Suggestion: create a group in your email account so you can email everyone in one click.) Save the file name as: GroupName_ContactList.
2. Create a timeline and action list for your group project for the rest of the semester...what are you going to do, when are you doing to do them, and who is going to do them? Save file as word doc or excel with the file name: GroupName_Timeline.
3. Before your meeting, each team member needs to come up with 3 ideas for potential ergonomics assessments (where, what, why, who) including the name and contact information for the person they would need to speak with for permission to do the assessment. Each person needs to save the file as a word doc with the file name: StudentNameFirstandLast_3Ideas.
4. During your meeting, everyone shares their ideas and everyone votes on the 3 tops choices. You guys pick one to do. Save these three as a word doc with the file name: GroupName_Top3.
5. Assign each person in the team a title and or job and or task. For example, one person can keep track of references / works cited, one person can do the calling / communicating with the site for the ergonomic assessments, one person can make the surveys, etc. These can change, but start thinking about what you want to do, can do, are good at, etc. Please make this a column on your contact list and include that when you save and send the document listed in #1.
6. Get started! Figure out what each person's next step is and DO IT!
7. Email to or print out and put in my box in the break room of the HF department all of the above documents by Monday, February 22nd before the start of class at 10:30. You will be graded for following directions and turning it in on time - email has a time stamp!

Also, grades are posted for the midterm on Blackboard. If you have questions, contact me.

And remember for Addendum B-2 for the NIOSH Lifting Equation, do not let Eq. B-6 fool you...it is divide and not ADD!!! Thank you, Ryan, for catching that. I have tried to scan to email the Addendum, but the files continues to be corrupted. Hold onto the paper copies I sent. I will get a PDF posted as soon as the copier and the internet let me!

Best,

Ashley