Occupational Health and Safety News in Ontario - Workers Health & Safety Centre

Work-related injuries to muscles, nerves, and tendons can be life-altering, affecting one in 10 adults in Canada. These injuries, known as musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) or repetitive strain injuries (RSIs), often originate in the workplace. By collaborating with workplace representatives and experts in ergonomics, Workers Health & Safety Centre (WHSC) has developed targeted training programs to help prevent MSDs and implement ergonomic solutions. These training programs are being offered for $20 during the month of February in support of RSI Awareness Day. The day occurs annually on the last day of February. It was established to help raise awareness and promote regulatory and workplace actions designed to prevent RSIs/MSDs and their and their negative effects workers, their families and the economy.

Did you know that most MSDs begin in the workplace?

Inadequately planned workspaces and poorly designed tasks can significantly contribute to the development of debilitating and life-altering musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). 
 
Musculoskeletal impairments include over 150 diseases and conditions that affect workers’ muscles, bones, joints, and nearby tissues every day, causing temporary or lifelong limitations. MSDs are the leading type of work-related lost-time claim reported to the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) in Ontario. They also cost workplaces hundreds of millions of dollars annually.  
 
Associated risk factors include force, repetition, awkward and static postures, extreme temperatures, contact stress, as well as vibration from equipment and machinery. Managing MSD hazards within a workplace is not just a best practice but also a legal obligation. Employers are mandated to implement every reasonable precautionary measure to safeguard the well-being of their workforce. Most work-related MSDs can be proactively prevented, and devising an action plan for solutions that includes training is an easy measure. 

Being proactive about workplace ergonomics brings various benefits, such as:

• Improved worker health, workplace morale and labour relations
• Decreased MSDs, WSIB costs and lost time.

Training a straightforward, cost-effective solution

WHSC has developed and implemented two training programs that are specially priced at $20 for the month of February. Offered virtually or in-person and always instructor led – Ergonomics & MSDs is intended as an introductory course for the prevention of MSDs in various workplaces, while Ergonomics: Basic Principles offers more in-depth training.

These two programs are designed to provide workers, joint health and safety committees, supervisors and worker health and safety representatives in smaller workplaces with the knowledge and skills to recognize, assess and control, if not eliminate, factors that contribute to MSDs as well as identify other hazards that impact work.

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Registration for virtual and in-person classroom training closes two weeks before each training date, so act quickly to secure your seat and access lower pricing. 

Don’t miss out on our new year special promotion of other essential training programs also available for a limited time.

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