Occupational safety, wellbeing and ergonomicsLaajuus (5 cr)

Objective

You know the organizations, goals and methods of occupational safety and occupational health care.
You can identify and assess stress factors at work and in working environments.
You can account for individual resources and effects of life phases on wellbeing at work.
You can choose, justify and use evidence-based physiotherapy methods to support and promote occupational wellbeing.

Content

What do occupational safety and health involve and how are they promoted?
What is occupational safety and how do you assess the factors related to it?
What is the role of physiotherapy in occupational health care?
How do you measure physical, mental and social load factors of work?
How do you evaluate workers’ resources and apply physiotherapy methods to empower workers?
What are the basics of ergonomic surveys?
How do you assess workload and affect related factors?

Qualifications

Clinical practice I, 5 ECTS credits

Evaluation

Students can
- use professional vocabulary and concepts in an expert way in different situations.
- evaluate information sources critically.
- work as team members in working life expert duties and identify and describe the problems of the professional field.
- evaluate operations in client, user and target group situations.
- choose appropriate models, methods, software and techniques according to the purpose and justify these choices.
- promote teams’ goal-oriented operation.