You have been given various qualitative and semi-quantitative ergonomic evaluation tools that are at your disposal. This assignment will allow you to demonstrate your ability to use one of these tools and summarize your results.

You must choose a task/activity or workstation to analyze. It can be an office set-up (yours or one at your place of work), a manual handling task, a work station, or any activity of your choosing. You will select an appropriate evaluation tool for your analysis. The tool can be qualitative (using any of the online tools outlined in this course or any others you may have access to), or a semi-quantitative (RULA, REBA, ROSA, NIOSH Lifting, Strain Index, etc.). It is up to you to choose what tool you want to use. For your presentation you must:

INTRODUCTION

Briefly describe the task/activity/work being analyzed

Why you chose the tool you chose

Summary of your findings and

Any changes to the task/activity/work you recommend based on your analysis.

CONCLUSION

REFERENCES

Your presentation must be 10-15 minutes in length. A power-point summary of the points listed above should be used for your in-class presentation.