2月29日为重复性劳损(RSI)宣传日(非闰年为2月28日). As the only “non-repetitive” day of the year, it’s the ideal date to devote to raising awareness of repetitive strain injuries. RSI Day is a global event which is marked in many countries. 我们敦促我们所有的地方和区域委员会将这一信息传递给会员, to shed light on this far-reaching workplace problem affecting our members.
有时候，我们在工作场所的健康和安全问题上过于纠结，以至于忽略了一些保持安全的基本要素. 全国范围内工作场所伤害的主要原因之一涉及不良人体工程学设计的危害，这可能导致重复性劳损(RSI)。.
What are RSIs?
重复性劳损(RSIs)是一个总称，描述了影响肌腱的疼痛疾病, muscles, nerves and joints due to overuse or misuse. rsi通常会影响身体部位，如颈部、背部、肩部、肘部、前臂、手腕和手.
症状可发展为慢性和致残性疾病，有时无法逆转或纠正, no matter the amount of physiotherapy or surgery. rsi也被称为肌肉骨骼疾病(MSDs)，在加拿大导致损失时间伤害的频率最高.
Work Shouldn't Hurt
大多数人，如果不是所有人，在工作中都经历过各种各样的疼痛或痛苦. Perhaps, 在我们职业生涯的早期，我们中的一些人(错误地)认为这项艰巨的工作任务是“正常的通行权”.人们认为，我们只要“习惯这份工作”，疼痛就会最终消失. 我们中有太多人因为这种缺陷而遭受了太长时间的痛苦, cultural workplace thinking. 而对于那些不经常运动的人来说，可能会有某种程度的与工作有关的疼痛, there is a big difference between being sore and being in pain. 通常，雇主提供的解决方案之一是在有问题的工作之间轮换. However, 轮岗并不能解决问题的根源，只会让痛苦蔓延.
Using pain relievers, other drugs, narcotics or alcohol is not a viable solution to repetitive strain injuries!
We must embrace the cultural workplace philosophy that “Work Shouldn’t Hurt”
RSI伤害超过了所有其他职业伤害的总和.
Examples of RSI injuries include:
- tendinitis
- bursitis
- neuritis
- tenosynovitis
- arthritis
- muscle strain
- low-back injury
- herniated disk
- carpal tunnel syndrome
常见症状从轻微到严重不等，通常逐渐发展，包括:
- throbbing
- aches and pains
- tenderness
- burning
- tingling
- numbness
- swelling
- weakness
- cramps
- stiffness
- loss of joint movement and strength in the affected area
Recipe for RSIs
(Use any or all ingredients)
- Continual repetition
- Awkward postures
- Fixed or static body positions
- Excessive force
- The pace of work
- Insufficient breaks or recovery time
- Vibration or cold stress
The Hierarchy of Controls
Hazards are best eliminated at their source. rsi的预防始于通过工作设计消除重复性工作. That may involve varied interventions, 从产品替代到自动化，再到个人辅助设备，如起重机或工具. All tools and equipment should be properly sourced and maintained. Well-designed workstations should be adjustable to fit the worker.
What We Can Do as a Union?
RSI Prevention is Better Than the Cure
我们需要利用集体谈判的力量来帮助建立正确的框架，以消除导致RSIs的危险. 我们的集体协议需要包含与人体工程学相关的语言，呼吁在人体工程学问题出现之前采取行动, and processes to address poor job design on jobs that are injuring our members. Ergonomic checklists, JH&SC investigations and recommendations, joint workplace ergonomic committees, 工人参与工位设计都是预防和对抗rsi的工具. 预防和解决人体工程学问题的专家是正在或将要从事这项工作的工人.
Certainly, 必须对患有RSIs的工人进行急救和治疗, and if any lost time is incurred, worker’s compensation benefits. We must ensure that workers understand they have options up to and including, in some cases, 如果他们认为他们被要求做的工作从人体工程学的角度来看可能危及他们，他们有权拒绝不安全的工作, leading to a repetitive strain injury. 我们的雇主必须明白，我们不会支持那些因为不符合人体工程学的因素而“故意伤害”的工作.
这里有一些模型人体工程学语言，应该是每一个集体协议的起点
“In addition to the other training specified by this agreement, the employer agrees to ensure that the Joint Health, 安全与环境委员会接受由委员会决定的一门或几门课程的培训，使他们能够优先解决人体工程学需求，并努力改善工作场所, work station or tool to fit the worker. The employer agrees to pay all associated costs.”
许多工会代表的工作场所都有具体的人体工程学代表和国家人体工程学代表. Has your bargaining committee investigated these options?
我们底特律三家汽车制造商集团的成员可以说是这个国家存在的一些最好的人体工程学语言. A quick search of their collective agreements, which are publicly available online, “人体工程学”一词在三家公司的集体协议中出现了200多次吗.
教育部已经开发了一个与人体工程学相关的广泛课程，如果你有能力，我们邀请你参加这个培训项目. http://www.viennafranchise.com/member-services/education/introduction-ergonomics-pergo
Our collective agreements have provisions for rest times, break times, holidays, and benefits that are all helpful in making our time at work and away from work. These are some tools that we should use to their maximums. 我们的集体协议可以被视为潜在的保护性健康文件. We need to use what we already have and then demand more!
Ergonomic Regulations
Unfortunately, 可执行的符合人体工程学的工作场所法规存在于有限的加拿大司法管辖区，我们必须这样做, as a union, 继续向省政府施压，在各自的职业健康和安全立法中制定更强有力的人体工程学保护措施和标准. 我们从许多渠道听说，政府健康和安全检查员不能依靠一般责任条款来解决工作场所的人体工程学问题. 人体工程学的改进和对公认标准的强制性参考将有助于工人和雇主实现工作场所健康和安全的高标准. Political action to improve health and safety legislation must be a top priority.
RSI Day has to be every day!
What is your workplace’s ergonomic action plan?
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