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2013 Puget Sound Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Occupational Ergonomics Symposium
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
Museum of Flight, Seattle
$125 before Labor Day*
$175 after Labor Day*
(Lunch Included)
Symposium Schedule
Keynote Speaker:
William S. Marras, Ph.D., CPE Honda Professor Chair Department of Integrated Systems Engineering The Ohio State University
William S. Marras holds the Honda Professor Chair in the Department of Integrated Systems Engineering at the Ohio State University. He serves as the director of the Biodynamics Laboratory and the Center for Occupational Health in Automobile Manufacturing, and he is executive director of the Institute for Ergonomics. Marras also holds joint appointments in the departments of orthopaedic surgery, physical medicine and rehabilitation, and biomedical engineering. His research is centered on musculoskeletal causal pathway investigations, including occupational biomechanical epidemiologic studies, laboratory biomechanics studies, mathematical modeling, and clinical studies of the back and spine. The Working Back
Low back pain in the workplace continues to represent a very prominent and extremely costly problem to individuals and employers. Our ability to treat these problems is poor so prevention is critical. Over the past decade much of the contemporary scientific findings have been able to identify how many diverse risk factors (physical work requirements, individual factors, psychosocial environments) can all influence low back disorder risk. This presentation will show how these factors can influence a common causal pathway and will discuss the types of prevention strategies that are most likely to control low back problems in the workplace.
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* Workshop on September 19th is not included in the Symposium cost.
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