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Unit IV Assignment part 1
Course Project Part 1: Ergonomics Hazard Assessment In Units IV, VII, and VIII, you will be building a course project that will assess ergonomic risks and provide strategies to improve a workstation of your choice. Your final project will be a PowerPoint presentation due in Unit VIII. During Unit IV, you will focus on the ergonomics-related hazard assessment. Select a workstation that you are familiar with (preferably one that you work with regularly or have worked with previously). BOS 3701, Industrial Ergonomics 2 Perform an ergonomics hazard assessment on that workstation. What are the potential stressors of that workstation? What are the potential ergonomic risks and hazards? What type of injury could they cause? Explain each hazard in detail. Your ergonomics hazard assessment should be a minimum of 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/ Information about accessing the grading rubric for this assignment is provided below.
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Ergonomics Hazard Assessment
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Ergonomics Hazard Assessment
Ergonomics is concerned with how people interact with equipment, elements of systems
and the environment. Industrial Ergonomics is concerned with how to raise employees to a
comfortable height so that they do not work over the head and how to prevent them from
repetitive tasks (Kelly, 2013). Ergonomics should be taken into account when designing a
workstation, acquiring new work equipment or designing a job to increase comfort, improve
production and reduce muscle fatigue or work and other injuries.
Potential Ergonomic hazards
I regularly work at a printing workstation where there are manual laborers, machine, and
system opera...
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