Understanding Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD)

Introduction

Cumulative Trauma Disorder (CTD) is a serious medical problem that can be prevented, if recognized early and good-work-practices are implemented. Furthermore, CTD's impact on quality and its costs associated to companies can threaten their very survival. Certain jobs are more likely to contain high CTD risk factors, than others, for example:

• Repetitive laboratory jobs, such as pipetting,

• Computer data entry,

• On-line inspections,

• Packaging, and

• Warehousing.

Course Description

Understanding CTD provides a solid foundation for the recognition and prevention of CTD. This core-competency-course is multimedia enhanced, and includes a pre-qualification requirement, competency testing, qualification examination, training administration, scheduling, evaluation, and competency validation functions. All CACTUS competency training courses are scaleable in various configurations from a single workstation to Internet and Intranet environments under Win98/NT and Windows 2000 operating systems.

CACTUS Integration

Understanding CTD is integrated into the following CACTUS sub-systems:

• TIMS (Training Information Management System) with 21 CFR Part 11 compliant module

• METAN (Competency Metrics and Analysis) with 21 CFR Part 11 compliant module.

Course Content

• Introduction to CTD

• Definition of CTD related injuries

• Anatomy of CTD

• CTD in the workplace

• CTD risk factors

• Recognizing CTD

• CTD impact on quality

• Ergonomics integrated to DQ

• CTD prevention integrated to SOP

• Summary

Learning Objectives

At the completion of this course the trainees will understand:

• CTD problems on the job

• CTD impact on quality & productivity

• The integration of ergonomics to DQ

• The integration of good-work-practice to SOP.

Audience

This course is intended for all levels of technical personnel working in QC/QA, manufacturing and management.