Occupational Health
Ever popular with workers and workplaces – OHCOW apps, tools and calculators translate knowledge into action
by defining a problem and/or contributing to solutions.
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This questionnaire style app consists of three scientifically recognized questionnaires on the indoor environment (air quality), job strain (stress), and asthma symptom screening.
Our Anthropometric Calculator is an amalgamation of databases that provides the most comprehensive and concise set of body measurement data.
December 2021 • A workplace tool used for identifying and prioritizing workplace chemical hazards.
Determine the adequacy of the ventilation in your classroom using this simple Excel-based tool developed by OHCOW.
November 2021 • Determine what precautions should be taken to protect workers from cold stress-related adverse health outcomes.
Using a proper size mouse is an important step to preventing injuries. The correct sized mouse will help to reduce awkward postures and contact stress on the hand and wrist.
November 2022 • Developed by OHCOW, this calculator determines the health risk of exposure to diesel exhaust.
Wearing the correct sized gloves helps the risk of musculoskeletal disorders. This calculator helps you to choose the proper size based on the work you are doing and your hand size.
The app allows you to take action to reduce or eliminate health and safety risks in your workplace by guiding you through 12 distinct health and safety topics prompting you to describe the hazard and identify its source/cause. It then provides you with ideas on how to fix it.
TOOL • This cardboard wheel tool helps with calculation of humidex and provides tips for outdoor workers appropriate to the humidex level.
[Use temperature and humidity percentage (%) to calculate humidex and get recommended actions.
This Job Demands Analysis (JDA) tool includes both a Physical Demands Description (PDD), as well as an analysis of Cognitive and Psychosocial Demands.
WEB APP • COMING SOON! A new web-based step-by-step app that create a Job Demands Analysis (JDA) based on the physical, sensory, cognitive and psychosocial demands of any job.
If you use a computer on a regular basis you need to be using keyboard shortcuts to minimize mouse use, increase keyboard efficiency, and reduce ergonomic risk.
A workplace risk assessment tool used to calculate the overall risk index for single and multiple manual lifting tasks (from CCOHS).
November 2021
[CALCULATOR]
Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW)
An effective tool for the calculation of the adjusted workplace exposure limit, for an unusual or extended work shift, recognizing the importance of the precautionary principle in occupational exposures.
June 2023 • Recently Improved and Reconfigured! Reduce risks of musculoskeletal injury by adjusting your workstation.
COMING SOON! E-COURSE • A new 7-module e-course based on the CSA Office Ergonomics Standard (Z412-17), and reflecting changes in the modern office environment as well as continuing to address ergonomic concerns related to the traditional office setting.
REFERENCE GUIDE – Updated and modernized to align with the new CSA Office Ergonomics Standard (Z412-17), our new Office Ergonomics Reference Guide now reflects changes in the office environment (i.e. multiple monitors, tablet use, remote workstations, etc.), as well as continuing to address ergonomic concerns related to the traditional office setting…
The PainPoint app delivers a simple ergonomic assessment by running through a series of diagrams and questions to: pinpoint musculoskeletal pain; identify possible sources; discover practical solutions – right from your smartphone!
A Handbook and Template for Completing Physical Demands Descriptions A document that objectively captures and describes the physical demands that are required to perform a particular job.
A practical tool, developed by OHCOW, designed to create an efficient and organized way to complete QEC assessments.
This tool is currently being redeveloped. Please check back later.
A Posture Risk Assessment Tool A workplace risk assessment tool that evaluates the exposure of workers to ergonomic risk factors associated with upper extremity musculoskeletal disorders.
November 6, 2023 • New tool helps protect Ontario construction workers from lung disease
A workplace risk assessment tool used to evaluate the risk of developing a musculoskeletal disorder to the hand, wrist, and elbow from repetitive work.
A free, simple to use, evidence-based online survey tool designed to assist workplaces in identifying psychosocial hazards that can lead to stress and mental injury, providing suggestions and pathways to address them, thus preventing harm.
November 19, 2021
[RECORDED WEBINAR]
John Oudyk, Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers (OHCOW)
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