Institute of Professional Learning
About the Institute of
Professional Learning
The Institute of Professional Learning offers diploma and certificate programs to professionals requiring new or enhanced skills. These innovative online programs are focused exclusively on educating professionals to help them reach their next level of career success.
Programs
Sandermoen School of Business
Degree Programs
- Executive MBA in Global Leadership
- Executive MBA in Innovation Leadership
- MBA in Global Leadership
- MBA in Innovation Leadership
Certificate Programs
Institute of Professional Learning
Diploma Programs
- Diploma in Integrated Disability Management
- Diploma in Safety, Health, and Environmental Management (SHEM)
Certificate Programs
- Certificate in Disability Management
- Certificate in Health, Safety and Environmental Processes (CHSEP)
- Certified Ergonomics Coordinator
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Certified Ergonomics Coordinator
Why this program is needed
Designed to enable workplace safety personnel and health professionals to deal with ergonomics issues that often arise in the workplace from poor design of workstations and workplaces, this comprehensive ergonomics course introduces an integrated approach to Musculoskeletal Disorder (MSD) Prevention using major North American ergonomics guidelines.Certified Ergonomics Coordinator Candidates
Professions and occupations having particular interest in this course: Health and Safety Professionals, Safety Advisors and Officers, Health and Safety Committee members, Industrial Hygienists, Kinesiologists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Human Resource and Personnel Managers, Insurance Providers, Disability Managers, Case Managers, Nurses, Union Leaders, and Business Managers.The certificate program is divided into 2 courses: Foundations, and Advanced. To achieve the certification both courses must be completed with a passing grade.
Foundations Course - Key Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Describe a job using a systems engineering model
- Sell ergonomics to management
- Create a description of the physical demands of job
- Identify and control work related musculoskeletal hazards
- Measure MSD hazards for ergonomics risk assessment
- Assess industrial tasks using the Washington State checklist
- Identify work related and personal risk factors for lower back injury
- Apply design and set-up guidelines to computer workstation components, such as the chair, keyboard, mouse, monitor, telephone, accessories and lighting
- Control process for engineering, administrative and person protective equipment types of risk controls
Advanced Course - Key Outcomes
Participants will be able to:
- Implement an ergonomics program for musculoskeletal disorder prevention
- Conduct a computer workstation assessment when an employee reports symptoms
- Identify work related and control personal risk factors for upper extremity disorders
- Use the NIOSH lifting equation to assess risk from lifting
- Apply ergonomics design guidelines to the workstation components in an industrial or office job.
- Practice conducting ergonomics risk assessments using a variety of common methods
- Make measurable ergonomics interventions in organizations
- Investigate organizational factors that contribute to the problem of musculoskeletal disorders such as psycho-social stress and poor safety culture
Program Details
Tuition for the Ergonomics Coordinator Certificate course is $950.00/course. The course is delivered completely online with weekly online classroom sessions. The required textbook is not included in the cost of the course.
Professional Ergonomics Certificate
Designed for:
This Certificate will equip graduates with ergonomic skills to enable them to address MSD issues in their workplace, as well as enabling effective prevention programs to minimize MSD risks.
- Comply with the performance based approach to ergonomics
- Train and educate adults in ergonomics using principles of adult learning
- Conduct large scale computer workstation interventions - such as when upgrading chairs or creating a new workspace
- Conduct quality ergonomics assessments
- Determine design specification based on task analysis
- Apply a holistic approach to investigating MSD claims
- Explain human error as a contributing factor in workplace accidents
- Implement participative ergonomics projects
Diploma Programs
Diploma in Integrated Disability Management
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Diploma in Safety, Health, and Environmental Management (SHEM)
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Certificate Programs
Certificate in Disability Management
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Certificate in Health, Safety and Environmental Processes (CHSEP)
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Certified Ergonomics Coordinator
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