Name: ACE2025 The heart of ergonomic interventions: People
Start: 2025-10-06T12:00:00Z
End: 2025-10-09T18:30:00Z
Location: Hôtel DELTA

MONDAY, OCT 6 AM (Workshop 1)

Manon Truchon, Ph.D.

Manon Truchon | Faculty of Social Sciences | ULaval

Measure, understand, and act: preventing psychosocial risks at work in the era of new legal obligations

Summary:

Starting in October 2025, workplaces will be more than ever affected by the Act Modernizing the Occupational Health and Safety Regime (LMRSST), which requires employers to assess psychosocial risks (PSR) and implement concrete actions to reduce them. This interactive workshop-lecture, led by Manon Truchon, Ph.D., full professor of occupational health psychology (Université Laval), offers you an essential refresher to understand and integrate these new requirements. We will clearly define psychosocial risks and explore existing tools for measuring them, including the QRBEST, a scientifically validated questionnaire already adopted by key partners (INSPQ, APSSAP, Treasury Board, etc.). You will discover the technological innovations developed around this tool, the steps leading to its validation, and how it can be effectively integrated into your practices. Finally, we will present our best practices guide and other resources to guide targeted, sustainable interventions tailored to your organizational reality. This workshop will allow you to leave with a clear understanding of legal obligations, reliable measurement methods, and levers for action to strengthen health and well-being at work.

Objectives:

1. Understand the new legal obligations related to psychosocial risks and know how to identify the risk factors to assess.

2. Discover validated tools for measuring psychosocial risks, including the QRBEST, and understand their added value in ergonomics and prevention.

3. Equip yourself with guides and best practices to plan and implement effective and sustainable interventions in the workplace.

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Monday, October 6, AM (Workshop 2)

François Ranger, M.Sc., MBA, BDI

DESS in Transportation Equipment Design - UQAM

Discover a method and tools to ensure proper sizing for workstations and worn equipment.

Topics covered:

Discomfort issues related to occupied space and worn equipment;
Factors influencing anthropometric variations;
The availability of anthropometric data;
The various measurable characteristics;
Morphological evolution;
Identification of limitations and pitfalls associated with the use of anthropometric data;

Example of a calculation;

Sizing process in the management of correction and design projects.
ISO 15537:2022 Principles for the selection and use of test subjects for testing anthropometric aspects of industrial products and their design - examples of its application through three projects.
Technique for taking measurements and calculating percentiles for a given subject.

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MONDAY, October 6, PM (Workshop 3)

Marchand, Denis PhD

Material Handling Training for an Unpredictable Work Environment

In an environment where material handlers' work is unpredictable, teaching an ideal material handling technique for every situation becomes virtually impossible and does not ensure safe adaptation to unexpected situations. During training, it is important to use a teaching approach that allows for better adaptation to new situations and the constant improvement of strategies for familiar situations. It is therefore important to use a teaching approach that proposes problem-solving through the understanding and application of biomechanical principles associated with material handling activities. Several examples of material handling activities associated with the work of paramedics will be presented during this workshop. Participants will see how teaching activities can use biomechanical principles to reduce physical strain in various material handling situations.

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