Occupational safety, welfare and ergonomics (5 cr)
Code: FT00AE04-3003
General information
Enrollment
16.12.2019 - 10.01.2020
Timing
13.01.2020 - 22.05.2020
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
2 op
Mode of delivery
60 % Contact teaching, 40 % Distance learning
Unit
Department of Sports and Rehabilitation
Campus
Savonlinna Campus
Teaching languages
- Finnish
Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Physiotherapy
Teachers
- Helka Sarén
- Pia Kraft-Oksala
Teacher in charge
Pia Kraft-Oksala
Groups
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FTSA18KP
Objective
You know the organizations, goals and means of occupational safety and occupational health care.
You can identify and assess stress factors at work and in working environments.
You can consider individual resources and effects of life phases on wellbeing at work.
You can choose, justify and use evidence-based physiotherapy means to support and promote occupational welfare.
Content
What is occupational safety and how is it implemented?
What is occupational security 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?
What is rehabilitation psychology?
How do you evaluate a worker’s resources?
How do you assess workload and carry out ergonomic surveys, and how do you affect the factors arising from them?
How do you apply physiotherapy methods to empower a worker?
By which means do you support a worker’s coping at work?
Evaluation scale
1-5