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Why wait in line when the Maestro can travel to your organization and
perform the following services (Visa and Mastercard accepted):
Ergonomic Evaluations | Individual Keyboard Training
Group Training Services | Professional Training Workshops
Laboratory Ergonomics
PBErgonomic Evaluations and Training
Are you “fit” to work? At PBE, we understand that the most overlooked piece of equipment in the ergonomic equation is the employee. If we examine only the workstation and ignore work habits, including keying, mousing, writing, phoning etc., it is likely that employees will continue to perform work in an awkward manner, thus exposing themselves to injury.
PBE will customize evaluations and reports to include:
- A detailed assessment and correlation of an employee’s work habits as they relate to the computer and desktop activities.
- A comprehensive examination of RSI risk factors which will both “showcase” and correct potentially injurious movements
- A PBErgonomic Evaluation, which includes: Ergonomic Guidelines, Workstation Checklist and a written review of findings and recommendations.
Showtime & Ticket Information
Location: Employee’s Workstation
Audience: 1
Running Time: 45 min/Standard Evaluation (1 hour min.)
“Typing Without Pain”: Individual Keyboard Training
by doctor prescription or via company sponsorship
If employees have injured themselves as a direct result of improper keyboard, mouse and desktop use, the Prodigy to Maestro Computing program provides a “pain-free” solution to the antiquated typing and mousing techniques, which are likely at the heart of their RSI.
The main goal of the program is to alleviate symptoms, while simultaneously increasing a patient’s productivity at the computer workstation. PBE’s expert staff will teach employees how to replace isolated, uncoordinated and injurious typing moves with more rhythmic, coordinated and pain-free typing motions.
By mastering PBE’s hallmark typing techniques, namely: Single-Drops, Drum Rolls, Choreography and more, employees will be in a better position to correlate incorrect typing movements with injuries, and subsequently, employ their new found skills to correct them.
Location: Great news! All training takes place right at the employee’s workstation!
Audience: 1
Running Time: Training comprises 4-6 one-hour sessions over a period of approximately 4 to 8 weeks.
For more information and pricing, please contact us at themaestro@pbergo.com or (510) 839-5716 (Visa and Mastercard Welcome)
“90 Minutes to Improve Your Position at Work”:Introduction to Desktop Ergonomics
This 90 minute interactive training course will encompass the Cal/OSHA educational requirements with respect to RSI, namely: awkward and faulty postures, repetition, force and pressure, and duration. PBE will connect every-day office work tasks and their associated movements with potential injuries and discomfort. The thrust of training focuses on changing habits and increasing awareness of potential movement pitfalls, with an eye toward keeping staffers healthy, safe and productive while performing their incumbent work tasks.
Location: Training Seminar Room (furnished with a mock-workstation, flip-chart and computer projector)
Audience: 25 student maximum
Running Time: 90 Minutes
For more info contact: themaestro@pbergo.com
“Avoiding the Mouse Trap-The Prequel”: Key Commands & Healthy Mouse Use
Does it seem as if your employees are trapped in a never-ending cycle of “clicking and dragging”? Are they holding on to their mouse for dear life? If so, there’s a three-step solution designed to break this dangerous habit!!!
“Avoiding the Mouse Trap” is precisely that solution designed to:
- Decrease mouse use via the application of key commands
- Teach the rudiments of the PBE Computing Techniques
- Detect & correct improper & potentially injurious movements when mousing or using any input device.
Location: Computer Lab (or equivalent) with 1 working computer for each student
Audience: 15 maximum
Running Time: 90 Minutes
For more info contact: themaestro@pbergo.com
“Avoiding the Mouse Trap – the Sequel”: Advanced Keyboard Shortcuts, Mousing & Typing Techniques
(Prerequisite: Students must have taken “Avoiding the Mouse Trap-The Prequel in order to register)
This training is the perfect complement for the employee who wants a more in-depth understanding of PBE’s hallmark movement techniques. Students will learn advanced typing techniques, namely: “Single Drops”, “Drum Roll”s, “New Home Row”, in the application of more sophisticated key commands as a means of reducing mouse dependency. Additionally, coordinated and fluid mouse moves will be showcased and reviewed.
Location: Computer Lab (or equivalent) with 1 working computer for each student
Audience: 15 maximum
Running Time: 90 Minutes
“Ergonomics To Go”: Ergo Training for the Mobile Worker
Do you have employees “on-the-go”? Whether traveling or telecommuting, today’s mobile worker faces an entirely new set of ergonomic challenges when compared to the more traditional desk-top worker. Students will learn the following:
- Laptop use (at home, in the office, at Starbucks, in a hotel, on an airplane etc)
- Hand held devices such as Blackberries, Palm Pilots, Cell Phones etc.
- Ergonomics of traveling (airports, hotels, foreign workstations, car rentals etc)
Location: Computer Lab (or equivalent) with 1 working computer for each student
Audience: 15 maximum
Running Time: 90 Minutes
For more info contact: themaestro@pbergo.com
“Conducting Research”: PBE’s Lab Ergo Class
Whether your employees are working with test tubes, flasks, a microscope, a pipette, fume hood or the computer, let the Maestro “fit them” to the particular task at hand. They will learn the most dynamic and healthy ways to productively perform their lab work. PBE’s proven techniques both invite and inspire students to reexamine the static, tension filled methods of performing work and replace them with coordinated, efficient and comfortable movements.
Your goal is our goal: To keep your lab staff healthy, safe & productive!
Location: Lab or simulated lab in conference room
Audience: 15 maximum
Running Time: 90 Minutes
For more info contact: themaestro@pbergo.com
“Advanced Professional Training”
How can your organization benefit from the Maestro’s advanced professional training services? First, let PBE help you assess which form of advanced training is most appropriate for your professional staff. Be it for health & safety staff, risk management/loss control, or departmental safety officers, the Maestro will happily customize a program for you!! Second, whichever advanced training package you ultimately subscribe to, PBE will train your staff to detect and correct the actual movements which cause RSI.
With a sharper eye and a keener understanding of physical performance, your safety staff will be in the enviable position to help you:
- Reduce worker’s compensation claims & associated costs
- Mitigate exhaustive requests for equipment modifications
- Achieve a competitive edge in the marketplace
Location: Training Seminar Room
Audience: 10 maximum
Running Time: To be determined
For more info contact: themaestro@pbergo.com
PBE Training Services do not constitute medical treatment or physical therapy. PBE Training Services are not intended as a substitute for medical care, but rather, as educational programs which provide participants with the necessary skills to help prevent and avoid Repetitive Strain Injury and remain safe and productive during their work day.
All PBE Training Courses both Group and Individual encompass the Cal/OSHA requirements for education with respect to Repetitive Strain Injury (CAL/OSHA Ergonomic Guidelines-Article 106, Sec. 5110 b-3)
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