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Health Related Issues

The reason for the the explosion of ergonomic research in the past half century is directly related to the increase in work related injuries. These injuries result in physical and mental discomfort for injuried workers and millions in dollars of lost productivity for employeers.

Student Objective:

Students will construct posters that describe injuries related to poor ergonomics. Using the below links describe five different injuries related to poor ergonomics.

Your posters should include the following:

Educational links relating to ergonomical health problems
  1. http://stress.about.com/health/stress/cs/ergonomics/

  2. http://curly.cis.unf.edu/talks/audhealth.html

  3. http://www.hal-pc.org/journal/01repet.html

  4. http://www.learn2type.com/ResourcesRSI

  5. http://www.cs.sfu.ca/csss/ergo4.htm

  6. http://www.momplanet.com/moms/health/nov00/avoid.shtml

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