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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS):

- a disorder of the hand and wrist characterized by pain, weakness, and numbness in the thumb and other fingers; the most common ergonomic-related injury in North America.

Collaboration:

- working together toward a goal in a way that allows everyone involved to contribute her or his strengths, whereby teamwork works better and problems are solved sooner.

Competencies:

- skills, knowledge, and behaviours that can be classified into categories.

Ergonomics:

- the study of workers' interactions with their working environment.

Freecycling:

- a new alternative to bringing unwanted items to a landfill by trading or giving away the items online through a network of people.

Information and Technology Communications (ICT):

- the range of techonologies that are used for gathering, storing, retrieveing, processing, analyzing, and transmitting information.

Keyboard:

- a device consisting of typewriter-like keys that enable users to enter data into a computer.

Monitors:

- devices that provide visual displays of computers' outputs.

Muscoskeletal Injuries (MSI):

- ergonomic-related injuries that occur when people perform the same task over and over, damaging nerves, muscles, tendons, or other body tissues; also called repetitive strain injuries (RSI)

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