If you are looking for ergonomics courses to help meet the educational requirement for BCPE certification, there are several options available. While FPE does not endorse any program, there are two that provide broad coverage of many human factors ergonomics topics, such as: engineering, design, physiology, anthropometry, biomechanics, public health, statistics, environmental health sciences, exposure, risk assessment, root cause analysis, task analysis, cognitive ergonomics, macro-
ergonomics, and workplace design.
The Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), University of California, Berkeley offers the Online Human Factors and Ergonomics (HF/E) Certificate Program. This program helps you understand how to design work tasks, tools, and
workstations to minimize cognitive and physical loads, reduce fatigue and injury, and improve productivity. Courses are:
- Foundations for Cognitive, Macro and Physical Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Evidence-Based Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Physical Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Cognitive Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Human-Centered Design
- Macroergonomics: A Systems Approach to Human Factors and Ergonomics The cost for this 24 graduate credit hour program is $9,450. For more information, go to: https://www.coeh.berkeley.edu/ergonline
The Chartered Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors has a Learning Pathways program. It consists of three distinct levels: Level 1 – 9 courses provide an overview of the domains of ergonomics and human factors; Level 2 – 5 courses address the integration and interactions of the various ergonomics and human factors domains; Level 3 – 3 courses cover leadership and management.
The Cross Sector Learning Pathway is designed to provide essential knowledge and skills in ergonomics and human factors. It's designed to enhance safety, efficiency and overall performance by focusing on the critical interaction between people and work systems. Courses include:
- Understanding systems
- Understanding mental capability
- Understanding physical capability
- Analyzing tasks
- Evaluating equipment
- Assessing workstations
- Analyzing the physical environment
- Understanding workload
- Assessing human factors risk
- Communications
- Understanding behavior
- Workspace design
- Job design
- Learning from adverse events
- Human factors leadership
- Safety management
- Human factors in practice
The cost for this program is $3290.83. While unclear, it could be equivalent to 24-30 undergraduate credit hours. For more information, go to: https://ergonomics.org.uk/resource/cross-sector-lp.html
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