Digital safety and health monitoring
This course provides basic knowledge on: monitoring, diagnosis and prevention of health-related issues in the workplace, diagnosing and managing work habits that affect health, remote online monitoring to ensure workplace safety, and state-of-the-art technologies for monitoring and estimating occupational health.
Facts
Target audience:
Health and safety engineers, operators, work planners, inspectors, maintenance engineers, health and safety inspectors and auditors.
Prerequisites:
Participants need to have knowledge or work in human sciences and human health/behaviour in the industrial workplace. They must also be familiar with computer applications and software use and interpret results.
Scope/Time:
4 days - 2 sessions of 90 minutes each with a 30 minute break in between. In addition, participants will need to devote a few hours to self-study materials and completion.
Course start:
During 2024
Location:
Distance learning
Language:
English
Price:
SEK 7 500 excluding VAT per participant
Registration:
Send an expression of interest. Luleå University of Technology reserves the right to cancel the course if there are too few participants.
About the course
This course is for those who, among other things, need to be aware of bad positions or are tasked with improving the condition of the workplace, working on designing and improving workplaces, developing work orders and work processes, or controlling various work conditions.
This course is designed to provide participants with the concepts, principles and process knowledge of workplace and worker digital safety and health monitoring. Determining the potential risks to the musculoskeletal system, as a major health-related issue in the workplace, through postures in a workplace via conventional and off-line methods is expensive and time-consuming.
By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Analyse the workplace ergonomically
- Study, monitor and analyse the working conditions of workers
- Use available software and application for scaffolding estimation of workers
- Explore the critical work condition
- Providing the solution(s) to improve the working conditions
Responsible teacher
Dr. Behzad Ghodrati is Professor of Operations and Maintenance Engineering at Luleå University of Technology. He has more than 30 years of internationally recognized executive and academic experience in mining, reliability and maintenance engineering. He has developed, led and participated in several industrial research and implementation projects in mining, railway and human factor maintenance. He has also developed and conducted several education and training courses/programs related to mining, reliability and maintenance engineering since 1993.
He has published several articles and book chapters, and has papers in worldwide scientific and industrial conferences. He was also guest editor of the International Journal of Mining, Reclamation, and Environment.
Expression of interest
- Register your interest
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Registering your interest is not binding. The course starts when enough people have registered their interest.
Contact us
LTU Professional Education uppdragsutbildning@ltu.se
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