RSI - What it is and How to Avoid it

Course Overview

Having completed this course you will be able to undertake your job tasks in such a way that the risk of contracting a Repetitive Strain Injury is reduced significantly.

Repetitive Strain Injuries are, in this computer age, an increasing risk to employees and challenge to organisational health and safety. Any RSI is painful and, in some cases, highly debilitating. It can lead to an inability to do certain jobs, or even work at all. All of which means that this course could be vital in helping you to understand what causes RSI, and how to reduce or remove the risk factors from your workplace.

RSI can lead to long-term sickness, and the associated costs of staff cover and job training. Such absences can also rob organisations of staff with knowledge and skills that are key to its success. A further problem is the increasing possibility of legal action taken by staff against employers who have failed to take appropriate steps to remove or reduce the risk of contracting RSI. Providing this course is a first step in educating staff on what causes RSI, and how to avoid it.

The course is divided into 5 sections covering the following areas:

• What is RSI?
• What are the causes of RSI?
• What are the symptoms of RSI?
• How to prevent RSI
• Desk-Top Stretches - a set of on-screen animated exercises designed to reduce the risk of RSI

How It Works

The information below is specific to this particular course. If you would like a more general guide to how our purchasing and learning works please visit the Four Easy Steps page which should tell you all you need to know.

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What

This is an online course, all the training will be taken through your browser window. There will be no face-to-face sessions with instructors nor will you receive any training material through the post.If you wish you may print out any page of the training material, and may also print the notes you took during the training.

You can also revisit the training material at any time, even after you have completed the course.

How

The material for this course has been broken down into several smaller lessons, each lesson dealing with a specific area of the overall subject.

The lesson consist of a series of pages in which an instructor will talk you through the lesson material at a pace that suits you. Pages may also include supporting pictures, graphs, animation or extra sounds to help with the learning where appropriate. Some lessons will include challenges/quizzes to help you keep in touch and interested in material.

Lessons can be taken in any order and each lesson may be PAUSE and RESUMED at any stage. When all lesson in the course have been completed our system will realise and automatically record that you have successfully completed the course

When

This course is delivered fully online allowing you to learn at your own pace, however an average duration would be 4 hours.