Greece Conference Program, Kefalonia, 17th

Invitation to the Conference
The Best Ergonomic Practices in Age Care
ErgocareBank-Conference
Lassi, (Argostoli), Kefalonia, Greece from 17th-18th September 2015
Target group
Occupational health and safety persons, social and health care workers, students,
teachers, researchers, superiors and safety inspectors
Thursday 17th September 2015
08.30
Registration, Coffee and Posters
09.15
Welcome by the Chairman,
Georgios Koumanakos, Executive manager, Frontida Zois, GREECE
09.20
Introduction of the ErgocareBank Project
Lecturers: Leena Lähdesmäki-Mäkinen and Soile Tikkanen both from
The Federation of Education at Jokilaaksot, Oulainen Vocational College, FINLAND
09.40
Home Care Across Europe, Current Structure and Future Challenges
Dr. Wienke Boerma, NIVEL, Utrecht, NETHERLANDS
10.30
Physical Risk Assessment for Health and Aged Care
How to find risks? Introduction of different methods, Introduction of Technical
Report ISO/TR 12296
Dr. Leena Tamminen-Peter; Oy Ergosolutions BC Ab, FINLAND
11.30
Lunch, Posters and Exhibition
13.00
Musculoskeletal disorders and psycho-social risks and stress at aged care
work in Greece / this is only our suggestion
Dr. Theoni Koukoulaki, Occupational Safety Centre of Hellenic Institute for Occupational Health
and Safety, GREECE
13.45
Adoption of Ergonomic Innovations for Injury Prevention
Dr. Bo Glimskär, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
14.30
Coffee
15.00
Workshop: Trends and Challenges in Home Care/Nursing Home Care in
SWEDEN, FINLAND, ESTONIA and GREECE
Every partner gives a 10-15 min. presentation to illustrate the situations in his own country,
the prevention ideas and ergonomic solutions
16.15
Summary of the Day, by the Chairman
19.30
Dinner
Friday 18th September 2015
9.00
Welcome by the Chairman,
Prof. Tore J.Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
9.15
Patient Handling Guidelines for Home Care and Aged Care in Holland
MSc, BSc Hanneke Knibbe, LOCOmotion Research and Consultancy in Healthcare,
NETHERLANDS
10.15
Ergonomic Solutions - the ErgocareBank –videos
PT. Dip. Ergonomics Kay Wilson
11.00
Knowledge and Skills of Safe Patient Handling Training in both Vocational
Collages and Work Places
Introduction of the Finnish Ergonomic Patient Handling Card® scheme,
Dr. Leena Tamminen-Peter, Oy Ergosolutions BC Ab, FINLAND
Good practices of ergonomics in vocational education
Lecturers Leena Lähdesmäki-Mäkinen and Soile Tikkanen, The Federation of Education at
Jokilaaksot, Oulainen Vocational College, FINLAND
12.00
Lunch, Posters and Exhibition
13.30
Panel Session Summarizing What Needs to be Done
(partners, keynotes)
Chairman. Prof. Tore J. Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
14.30
Coffee
15.00
Summary of the ErgocareBank Conference
Chairman. Prof. Tore J. Larsson, Royal Institute of Technology, SWEDEN
http://ergocarebank.sth.kth.se/
Registration
http://www.frontidazois.gr/en/ergocarebank-conference/information.php#top
Venue: Mediterranee Hotel Lassi, (Argostoli) 28100 Kefalonia, Greece
Phone: +30 26710 28760 http://www.mediterraneehotel.gr/