Practical Why?
Like top athletes, you use your body at work to perform tasks that require skill, strength, flexibility, coordination, and endurance.
If you repetitively perform the same physically demanding activities, it can cause pain in your muscles and joints. This overburdening negatively impacts your productivity and could provoke other health problems. By being aware of this, you can take action in good time.
What do you learn?
This training course doesn’t just present you with dry theory. What you can expect is an active, practical workshop packed with job-specific exercises.
Move more deliberately
- Discover the ergonomic basics and risk factors of excess physical strain, with an emphasis on work-related factors.
- Gain insight into common aches and pains, as well as your personal physical loads and load capacity.
Improve your moves and lifting technique
- Lifting from your legs, your back, or something in between? Learn the most appropriate postures, moves, and lifting techniques to apply in your work situation thanks to job-specific exercises. Our basic postures and golden rules are the guiding principles here.
Optimise your working methods and boost your productivity
- Find out how to carry out your work ergonomically and efficiently to avoid excessive fatigue and discomfort.
- Learn to use the available tools efficiently in your own work situation.
Take care of yourself like an athlete
- Explore healthy habits and strategies to reduce physical (over)fatigue and promote recovery.
Exercises for a strong back and to help with initial symptoms
- Application through job-specific exercises: exercise circuit
- Self-care: exercises for a strong back, first aid for back pain, and smart treatment of initial back and muscle pains.
Includes practical application, during which you learn the most appropriate postures, moves, and lifting techniques in a common work situation.
There is a maximum of 15 participants per course. This way, you will acquire maximum practical experience so that you can react in a targeted manner in specific situations.
Personalised advice
Would you like an expert to help you apply the discussed techniques to your own workplace? No problem! We’ll link these training courses to individual advice tailored to your working environment. As icing on the cake, you’ll receive a personalised report with concrete tips.
This course is part of our Interact-offering
Talk to an expert, share your experiences, and learn from each other. Learning is a social experience. You learn to apply basic knowledge in practice, both online and in the classroom.
Result?
After this training course, you will know the most suitable ergonomic postures, working methods, and lifting techniques for your work situation. Thanks to the practical tips, you can better prevent work-related (back) aches and pains and you will know how to react in time to initial symptoms.
At the end of this workshop:
- you will have gained insight into the basic principles of physical strain and the way in which (back) aches and pains arise;
- you will have learned some basic exercises for a strong back and how to treat initial symptoms;
- you will be able to recognise the ergonomic risks in your own working environment;
- you will know the basic postures and principles of lifting and moving heavy objects, and be able to apply them to your work and home situation;
- you will know what tools are available in your own work situation and how to use them efficiently.
Inspiration sessions to raise awareness
Are you looking for a short but inspiring session to raise awareness among colleagues about ergonomic lifting? Then our inspiration session is exactly what you need. You can request an inspiration session as part of a Lunch & Learn event or as a brief presentation at your staff event (both online and offline).
For whom?
For everyone who wants to move heavy objects responsibly in order to prevent (back) aches and pains. The training course is suitable for all employees who perform physically demanding activities.
Our experts provide a wide range of ergonomics and injury-prevention training courses. We were able to develop all of these training programmes thanks to our many years of experience in a wide range of working environments."Gerrit Pollentier Competence Center Ergonomics Manager at Mensura
What is stipulated by law?
Regulations on the manual handling of heavy objects are laid down in Book VIII of the Codex on Well-being at Work (Title 3).
The Codex requires employers to implement a risk management policy, including risk analyses (at least every five years). Informing and training employees is also part of this.
Price
The price depends on how you participate in the training course.
If your organisation is affiliated with Mensura External Service for Prevention and Protection at Work (ESPPW) and you have prevention units, you can pay with these as long as your balance is sufficient.
Subsidies and financing options
We qualify for all kinds of subsidies and financing options because we are certified by many government agencies and sector funds.
- SME-Portfolio (in Flanders). Use these certification numbers in your request:
- members of Mensura External Department for Prevention for Prevention and Protection: Mensura EDPB - DV.O105072
- non-members: Mensura CONSULT - DV.O101943
- Training cheques - Wallonia
- Workability vouchers
- Sector fund
- Alimento
- Constructiv
- Sectoral Training Fund Service Cheques
