Enrollment Central instructor-led training:

• Click on the course title to register for Enrollment Central courses. Topics include:



• Computer Ergonomics: Train the Evaluator
• How to Maintain a Healthy Back
• Laboratory Ergonomics
• Office Ergonomics for the Computer User

Web-based training via Enrollment Central:

• Evaluating Your Computer Workstation for Comfort and Productivity – Learn basic ergonomic principles and how to set up a functional computer workstation.
• Maintaining a Healthy Back– Learn how to prevent back injury if you lift, carry, or perform other activities that may place demands on the back (and isn't that everyone?).

Customized group training:

• Have an ergonomic specialist present group training in your workplace, focusing on the tasks and equipment your group uses. Group sessions are often the best use of everyone's training time, and often the most successful way supervisors and safety coordinators can get employees to a training seminar. To schedule group training:
  
  
• You need at least 6 participants.
• E-mail your request to ehsih@ucsd.edu, including:
• Your name
• Department
• Phone number and e-mail address
• Building and room number

Self-help training options:

• Read all about it:
• 50 Things You Can Do To Save Your Back (Word) (PDF)
• Back Exercises — Making Your Back Work for You (Word) (PDF)
• Healthy Choices For Computer Users (PDF)
• How To Safely Lift and Carry
• How to Set Up an Ergonomic Computer Workstation
• Ergonomics: Stretches
• Additional Ergonomic Resources

• Web-based slide shows:
• Designing Your Computer Workstation for Comfort and Productivity
• Laboratory Ergonomics: A Practical Approach for Improving Comfort in Research Environments

Tip: Supervisors, document any safety training you provide with a dated sign-in sheet, including a brief description of the subject material covered.

Ergonomic Resource Fund:

Find out how campus-funded employees can apply for funding from Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) to help purchase ergonomically-designed products exclusively from Marketplace Preview.

• Read Ergonomics Resource Fund.

Win a free ergo chair for your workplace:

Read Win a Free Ergo Chair from EH&S to learn how you might win a free ergonomically designed chair for your workplace.

Become a Department Ergonomic Evaluator:

Learn how to become a Department Ergonomic Evaluator capable of performing computer workstation evaluations for your work unit.

• Register for the Computer Ergonomics: Train the Evaluator course on Enrollment Central.
• Read about the Department Ergonomic Evaluator Program. (Word)

If you are a UCSD employee and have questions, contact an ergonomics specialist.