Not only is training your workforce a legal requirement, it is also good practice as it saves you money. It's a well known fact that preventing injuries before they happen is the #1 tool in reducing health care costs, lost time injuries, and improving your companies overall bottom line.

Barantas Inc. firmly believes prevention is the key. An effective approach to MSD prevention can help your company compete in today’s global marketplace.

Preventing MSDs helps to:

Who should take the course?

• Owners/Managers
• Supervisors/Foreman
• Ergonomics Team/JHSC/H&S Committee
• Workers

General Course Description:

1. What will be covered in the course?
   • For workers:
   • Overview of MSDs, their cost implications, nature and prevelance
   • General Anatomy and body physics
   • Simple understanding of cumulative effects, position vs stress and tissue tolerances
   • How to recognize potential hazards
   • What to do when a potential hazard has been identified
   • The keys to success
   • Samples to work through
• For managers/supervisors/foreman
  • all of the above plus
  • How to manage healthy working relationships and encourage reporting
  • How to perform quick assessments to verify potential MSD hazards
• For Ergonomics Teams, JHSC, H&S committees
  • Beyond checklists, what tools are available
  • Surveys - why, when and how
  • Your role, and the formula for success
• For executives/owners (delivered separately from above)
  • all of the workers and managers/supervisor sections, plus...
  • Understanding your legal position and liability
  • How to build a healthy company - from the top down
  • Building systems for prevention strategies
2. What you get.
• Course outline with area for notes
• Sample site checklists
• Root cause worksheet
• MSD Methods table (for Erg teams, etc)
• Access to Barantas website for further updates to course material or subject matter.
3. Methods of course delivery.
   • Custom Conference (large audiences) - multi-media included
   • In house group sessions - multi-media included
   • Specialized group problem directed either in-house or on-site
   • On-site (smaller groups) - Handout fascilitated

Course goals/objectives.

The argument for preventing MSDs is persuasive even if you consider only the direct costs - let alone the costs when people are working in pain and discomfort or are absent. With this course everyone including workers, managers and up will gain a sufficient understanding of the importance and prevelance of MSDs to help identify, trouble-shoot and reduce the likelyhood of injury.

This can include integration with your existing corporate policies for procedure and methods, as well train upper level managers on managing the whole process from start to finish to maximize the control or outcome of issues identified.

Train today for a safer, healthier tomorrow.

Barants Training Offers:

• Customized for your company needs
• Tailored for individual audience(s)
  • Worker
  • Supervisor
  • Ergonomics team leader/JHSC
  • Executive
• Integrate your exisiting Policies and Procedures
• Use training as part of a "roll-out"
• Real situtations
• Relevant information
• Knowledgable, professinoal staff to answer questions
• Ability to handle almost any size group in almost any situation.

Reserve your training:

You can directly request training through our on-line reservation system, using the link here:

Training Registration

or by emailing:

training@barantas.ca