Type Guides & Tools
International
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCornell University Ergonomics Web
This checklist provides guidance on the ergonomic design of a medication cart as this impacts patient and staff safety and health issues. The checklist is not a list of features, but rather a list of items that affect ease of use, safety, and effectiveness and reduce the chance of a medical error...
Type Visual resources, Guides & Tools
USA
LanguageEnglish
ProviderTriMedia Environmental & Engineering Firm
This website provides information (and a short film) about several interventions in the healthcare industry. Healthcare workers make diagnoses and prognoses all day long, but it isn’t always easy for them to recognize signs and symptoms of injury in themselves. Although hospitals and other...
Type Guides & Tools
International
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCornell University Ergonomics Web
This document provides instructions related to ROSA: picture-based postural targeting screening tool for quantifying exposure to risk factors for office workers.
Type Guides & Tools
International
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCornell University Ergonomics Web
ROSA is a picture-based postural targeting screening tool for quantifying exposure to risk factors for office workers. A ROSA assessment gives a quick and systematic assessment of the postural risks to a worker. The analysis can be conducted before and after an intervention to demonstrate that the...
Type Guides & Tools
International
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCornell University Ergonomics Web
This document provides instructions associated with the Workplace Ergonomic Risk Assessment (WERA) method, and observational tool developed to provide a method of screening the working task quickly for exposure physical risk factor associated with MSDs.
Type Guides & Tools
International
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCornell University Ergonomics Web
The Workplace Ergonomic Risk Assessment (WERA) method is an observational tool that covers an extensive range of physical risk factors including posture, repetition, forceful, vibration, contact stress and task duration: Is also involves the five main body regions to be assessed (shoulder, wrists,...
Type Guides & Tools
International
LanguageEnglish
ProviderCornell University Ergonomics Web
This tool can be used by ergonomic professionals in order to evaluate office chairs.