Beyond office chairs: what is ergonomics?
- Date
- 25th June 2009
- Time
- 08:15–09:45
- Location
- INEOS Exhibition Centre, Gate 3 (off Powdrake Road), Grangemouth, Falkirk, FK3.
- Map
- See a map of this venue
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To book a FREE place please contact Pamela MacLean on 0131 650 0958 or e-mail pamela@keilcentre.co.uk
Scottish Ergonomics Forum
Breakfast Seminar
Chris Rourke, Managing Director of User Vision, will speak at Scottish Ergonomics Forum at the end of June 2009. Chris will provide an overview of usability testing for software, products and websites. He will also cover some of the benefits of usability testing, and variations in the methodologies including advanced methods such as eye tracking and remote usability testing.
Programme
08:00 Breakfast buffet in the canteen at the Ineos Grangemouth Exhibition Centre
08:15 Opening address by The Ergonomics Society
08:25 Achieving Behavioural Excellence
Richard Scaife from The Keil Centre will talk about the development and application of
safety behaviour standards in a range of industry sectors. Behaviour standards define
the behaviours required of everyone within an organisation or site in order to achieve
excellence in safety performance. They also provide indications of the behaviours that
are detrimental to safety performance. So far, multiple uses for such standards have
been identified and implemented, such as developing managers’ and supervisors’
behavioural competencies, developing safety culture, and guiding the operation of a
behavioural safety programme.
08:45 Fatigue Risk Assessment and Management in a Manufacturing Environment
Carole Egner from Ineos in Grangemouth will describe a simple risk assessment tool to
help users manage and control the risks of fatigue in the workplace. The aim of the tool
is to allow supervisors, who have no prior human factors or ergonomics training, to be
able to identify members of their team who may be susceptible to the effects of fatigue.
An easy-to-use template is then used to assess the risks of the planned workload,
specific tasks and working environment to identify higher risk activities. Control
measures are then recommended to minimise the risk of accidents due to fatiguerelated
errors. The Fatigue Risk Assessment (FRA) has been found to be suitable for a
range of roles, including shift, day, operations, maintenance, supervisory and safety
critical roles within a manufacturing environment. In addition, the FRA can be
supplemented with a short training package, focussed on advising day and shift
workers what they can do to minimise their own personal risks from fatigue.
09:05 Usability testing
Chris Rourke from User Vision will provide an overview of usability testing for software,
products and websites. He will cover some of the benefits of usability testing, and
variations in the methodologies including advanced methods such as eye tracking and
remote usability testing.
09:25 Assessing and managing manual handling and musculoskeletal risks in industry
Margaret Hanson from WorksOut will describe how organisations can meet their legal
responsibility to assess and manage ergonomic risks at work, specifically focusing on
these relating to manual handling and musculoskeletal disorders. Work related risk
factors will be discussed, and ways of assessing and reducing them will be described
and illustrated with practical examples from industry. The benefit of adopting an
ergonomic approach to managing these risks will be highlighted.
09:40 Closing remarks
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