Better workstations, wherever your people work.
Give your in-house team the skills to assess office and home office workstations, guide practical adjustments and build an ergonomics process that lasts.
Make office ergonomics part of how you work.
A good office ergonomics process goes beyond a one-time workstation adjustment. It gives your team a consistent way to identify concerns, involve workers and choose changes that fit the person and the task, whether they work on-site or from home.
This one-day workshop trains an in-house champion to establish and maintain an office ergonomics process within existing business systems, including procedures for employees who work from home. It is designed for HR, safety and facilities managers, and others responsible for supporting office workers.
Participants learn to assess workstations, orient employees to effective setup, optimize current furnishings and accessories, recognize common hazards, and recommend practical adjustments or new equipment when needed.
What you’ll learn
Learn a consistent approach to assessing on-site and home office workstations, then build the procedures to support both.
Build your internal process
- Integrate office ergonomics into existing business systems.
- Define roles and responsibilities for workers, managers and your in-house assessors.
- Design a repeatable process that can be maintained over time.
Recognize hazards and assess needs
- Identify common workstation hazards associated with discomfort and injury.
- Assess office and home office workstations and give useful feedback to workers and management.
- Consider the worker, the work and how the space is actually used.
Support effective setup, on-site and at home
- Adjust workstation layout, furnishings and accessories for effective use.
- Establish work-from-home assessment and support procedures.
- Orient employees to their workstation and help them use equipment as intended.
- Build adaptability into workstations for a wide range of workers.
Choose changes and measure impact
- Decide when to retrofit or purchase furnishings, equipment and accessories.
- Choose appropriate products and vendors.
- Evaluate options for workers with different body sizes or specific needs.
- Measure whether an intervention helped and whether your overall process is working.
Ready to put the process into practice.
Participants leave prepared to assess office and home office workstations, support better setup and equipment use, establish work-from-home procedures, and advise on adjustments or purchasing decisions.
Review the workstation
Identify concerns and provide feedback that workers and managers can act on.
Recommend practical changes
Use existing furnishings effectively and identify when different equipment is needed.
Maintain the process
Track the results of individual changes and the office ergonomics program overall.
Included with the workshop
Every participant receives a certificate of completion, a course manual and assessment tools.
What participants say
I attended your ergonomic assessor workshop last week in Edmonton. I just wanted to thank you again for the great course!
It was nice to work with a company that was able to provide us with exactly what we needed.
Excellent job of keeping the sessions interesting and entertaining, answering questions, making the group feel at ease, encouraging discussion.
Excerpts from participant feedback previously published by WorkSMART.
Support better workstations, on-site and at home.
Tell us about your team and what you want your office ergonomics process to achieve. We’ll discuss how this workshop can support your goals.