Certified Health Ergonomics Safety Specialist(CHESS)

Complimented with written and practical skill assessments throughout the course to ensure thorough understanding of principles and practices, the CHESS program provides students with the most up-to-date knowledge to ensure a skilled and certified outcome.

The Certified Health Ergonomics Safety Specialist Certificate Program is an evidence-based program that will train safety professionals to recognize and assess physical and mental risk factors in the workplace, apply ergonomic design to reduce risk and implement practical solutions to the most common and costly workplace hazards. Documentation will be provided to the student to satisfy due diligence and local regulation compliance.

Learning Outcomes

• Ergonomic and human factors approaches for office and industrial workplaces

• Anatomy and physiology

• Workplace injury causes, consequences and treatment

• Occupational health and psychology

• Physical and mental risk factors

• Risk assessment

• Pain and performance at work

• Design ergonomics and anthropometrics