{"id":828,"date":"2015-10-28T21:54:05","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T21:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/facilities\/?page_id=828"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:31:36","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:31:36","slug":"ergonomics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/ergonomics\/","title":{"rendered":"Ergonomics"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>How to Request an Ergonomic Evaluation:<\/h2>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li><strong>Faculty:<\/strong> Email your Department Chair and provide the following information:<br \/>\n<strong>Classified Staff:\u00a0<\/strong>Email your Supervisor and provide the following information:<br \/>\n<strong>Department Chairs\/ Supervisors:\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: inherit\">Email Facilities Remedy at <\/span><a style=\"font-size: inherit;color: blue\" href=\"mailto:FacilitiesRemedy@palomar.edu\">FacilitiesRemedy@palomar.edu<\/a> and provide the following information:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-left: 50px\">\n<li>Full Name<\/li>\n<li>Worksite Location<\/li>\n<li>Phone Number<\/li>\n<li>Simple Description of your ergonomic request<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>After the Remedy Request has been received, the EH&amp;S\/RM Department will contact the requesting employee to schedule an Ergonomic Assessment and gather more information.<\/li>\n<li>After the Ergonomic Assessment has been completed, the EH&amp;S\/RM Department will make a recommendation and provide a cost estimate. If the requesting department approves, an account string must be provided before EH&amp;S\/RM can purchase any of the recommended items.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2>What is Ergonomics?<\/h2>\n<p>Ergonomics involves the arrangement of the workplace environment to fit the person&#8217;s work. When ergonomics is applied correctly, stress and many potential injuries\/disorders associated with the overuse of muscles, bad posture and repeated tasks can be reduced. Palomar College maintains a comprehensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/298\/2015\/10\/ErgonomicProgram.pdf\">Ergonomic Program<\/a>\u00a0that complies with all local, state and federal regulations.<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h2>More Information:<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/298\/2015\/10\/Ergonomic-1.ppt\">Ergonomic Training Preparedness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/298\/2015\/10\/EasyErgoforDesktops.pdf\">Easy Ergonomics for Desktop Users<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/ergonomics\/set-up-your-workstation\/\">Set Up Your Workstation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Request an Ergonomic Evaluation: Faculty: Email your Department Chair and provide the following information: Classified Staff:\u00a0Email your Supervisor and provide the following information: Department Chairs\/ Supervisors:\u00a0Email Facilities Remedy at FacilitiesRemedy@palomar.edu and provide the following information: Full Name Worksite Location Phone Number Simple Description of your ergonomic request After the Remedy Request has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11394,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-828","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/828\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.palomar.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}