Seminar: Improved ergonomics in your working life...
The working life at a dental clinic contains a lot of different working positions. This seminar will give you extensive advice and tips on how to improve the ergonomics in your working life and provide you with joy concerning your work - with less physical pressure. The seminar is divided into two parts.
Part one:
Mette Krebs Birkeland will show you examples of typical working situations from clinics throughout the country. She will explain, what happens to the body during different working positions and the participants will get an explanation of what happens to the body during work. Mette Krebs Birkeland will make analyses of different working positions and the fact why they sometimes cause considerable inconvenience.
It can always get better!
On the basis of all the experiences Mette Krebs Birkeland has gained on her visits to dental clinics throughout the country, she will make suggestions for better working positions for dental personnel. Furthermore she will give some specific advice which can change bad ergonomic habits.
Part two:
The best way to better working positions is body awareness. Therefore the participants have to be active at the second part at the seminar. They have to feel their body, find the joint balance and make some exercises prepared especially according to the needs of a dental clinic.
Your body will be strengthened – and there will be a lot of laughs!
Every participant will receive relevant material. Please wear casual clothes and please bring a blanket, since some of the exercises will be made on the floor.
Seminar Leader:
Mette Krebs Birkeland is an ergonomic consultant and has specialized in helping dental clinics. Through workshops and seminars, she has helped over 170 dental clinics throughout the country. Focus is an improvement of working positions for dental clinics – and together with this an improvement of the physical well-being of the personnel.
