Ergonomic Training Resources

Get the training you need to prevent work-related muscular and skeletal strain, discomfort, and injury at work and at home.

Select a topic for more information:

Enrollment Central Instructor-led Training

Click on a course title to register for Enrollment Central courses:

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

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Web-based Training on Enrollment Central

Use the "EC credit" link to have the tutorial recorded on your Enrollment Central and MyTraining training histories.

Non-employees can use the "certificate only" link to view the tutorials and print a certificate upon successful completion.

• Evaluating Your Computer Workstation for Comfort and Productivity – Learn basic ergonomic principles and how to set up a functional computer workstation.
  • EC credit
  • Certificate only

• 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?).
  • EC credit
  • Certificate only

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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.

How 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

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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

• Web-based slide shows
  • Designing Your Computer Workstation for Comfort and Productivity
  • Ergonomics for Cytotechnologists, (PowerPoint), UC Los Angeles EH&S
  • Laboratory Ergonomics: A Practical Approach for Improving Comfort in Research Environments
  • Liquid Handling and Pipetting (PowerPoint), UC Los Angeles EH&S

• Video
  • Liquid Handling and Pipetting (wmv file), UC Los Angeles EH&S

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

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Ergonomic Resource Fund

Campus-funded employees can apply for ergonomic resource funding from Environment, Health & Safety (EH&S) to help purchase ergonomically-designed products exclusively from STORE.

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Become a Department Ergonomic Evaluator

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).

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Contacts

For more information, or if you're experiencing discomfort or pain associated with your work, contact an ergonomics specialist:

• Campus, including SIO:
  • EH&S Occupational Health & Hygiene
• Hillcrest Medical Center and Thornton Hospital:
  • Ron Sieckmann, (619) 471-0372

Notice: Ergonomic information, training, and services are intended exclusively for UCSD employees and affiliates.

Safety

Ergonomics

• Risk Factor Awareness
• Employee's Role
• Resource Fund
• Supervisor's Role
• Training Resources
  • Lifting & Carrying
  • Maintaining a Healthy Back
• Workplace Evaluations