While enjoying beautiful Banff, Alberta, Occupational Biomechanics and Ergonomics Lab (OBEL) team members shared and discussed ergonomics research and practice with an international audience of researchers, practitioners and industry personnel at the joint Association of Canadian Ergonomist and Organizational Design and Management conference.
OBEL researchers have been working hard to translate MSD prevention knowledge into useful resources to support MSD prevention in the paramedic sector.
Moving from manual to powered stretchers could reduce the number of injuries to paramedics by 78 per cent, Occupational Biomechanics and Ergonomics Lab research has found.
OBEL's Nathalie Oomen was recognized as an academic all-Canadian at the President's Honour Roll reception today!
OBEL is excited to welcome a new group of innovative, motivated and creative students to the team.
Research led by Brendan Coffey published in the May 2016 volume of Applied Ergonomics found that novices are able to correctly identify physical demand elements, but are limited in their ability to quantify those demands.
Researchers from the Occupational Biomechanics and Ergonomics Lab (OBEL) will be sharing research with the international scientific community at the 9th international scientific conference on the prevention of work-related Musculoskeletal disorders (PREMUS), hosted by the Institute for Work and Health.