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Occupational safety, wellbeing and ergonomics (5 cr)

Code: FJ00DW19-3007

General information


Enrollment

06.11.2023 - 17.11.2023

Timing

08.01.2024 - 31.05.2024

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

Seats

20 - 40

Degree programmes

  • Degree Programme in Podiatry
  • Degree Programme in Physiotherapy

Teachers

  • Pia Kraft-Oksala
  • Piia Soikkeli
  • Miia Kierikki

Groups

  • FTSA22SM
    Physiotherapy, part-time studies
  • Orientaatio: Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 09.01.2024 12:30 - 15:45
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 15.01.2024 10:00 - 11:30
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 16.01.2024 08:15 - 11:30
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 22.01.2024 10:00 - 11:30
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 29.01.2024 10:00 - 11:30
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 05.02.2024 10:00 - 11:30
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 11.03.2024 10:00 - 11:30
  • Tehtävien purku: Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 19.03.2024 08:15 - 12:15
  • Tehtävien purku: Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 19.03.2024 12:15 - 14:00
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 02.04.2024 13:00 - 15:15
  • Työsuojelu, työhyvinvointi ja ergonomia FJ00DW19-3007 / 28.05.2024 08:15 - 15:45

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 account for 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 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 by exploiting health care technology?
How do you assess workers’ resources and apply physiotherapy methods to empower workers?
What are the basics of ergonomic surveys?
How do you assess workload and how do you affect related factors?

Evaluation scale

1-5

Qualifications

Attending the course requires that the learning outcomes of the courses of Evaluating human functioning and Physiotherapy interventions I-III have been achieved.