1. What is one area of your life where ergonomics plays a large role? Describe that area and the ergonomics issues involved.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.
2. Reflect on the engineering controls, administrative controls, and personal protective equipment (PPE) that are involved in your workspace. Do you believe they are effective, or does more need to be done?
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.
3. Explain a stretching routine for your work environment. As you consider your routine, keep in mind the specific individuals within your work environment who will be using this plan. How will you account for differences in sizes, ages, and cultures?
Your answer should be written in essay format and contain at least 75 words.
4. Evaluate one specific area of a colleague’s office environment to measure (e.g., chair, keyboard, desk). Discuss how the measurement process works and what your findings would be. What advice do you have to improve the workspace?
Your answer should be written in essay format and contain at least 75 words
5. As a person serving in the role of a safety practitioner, how would you explain to a new worker the difference between engineering and administrative controls and how they relate to a specific work environment? Be specific in your response, and include examples of your work environment.
Your answer should be written in essay format and contain at least 200 words.
6. As a person serving in the role of a safety practitioner, how would you explain to a new worker the use of administrative controls and how they relate to a specific work environment? Be specific in your response, and include examples of your work environment.
Your answer should be written in essay format and contain at least 200 words.
7. Describe an environmental issue that has impacted you. Then, explain how technology is being used to investigate or improve the issue, or explain how technology may be having a negative effect on the issue.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.
8. Describe how the Earth’s biome in which you live influences what you can do on a day-to-day basis. Within the biome where you live, provide a few examples of ecological communities and species interactions.
Your journal entry must be at least 200 words. No references or citations are necessary.
9. Outline the important points contained in a hypothesis. Then, at the end of your essay, demonstrate your knowledge by writing a hypothesis about an environmental concept that you are curious about.
Your response must be at least 200 words in length.
10. Explain how environmental technologies are being used to detect earthquakes. Deconstruct the reasoning leading to the relationship between injection wells and earthquakes.
Your response must be at least 200 words in length.
