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OUTLINING CAUSE AND PREVENTION OF WORK RELATED BACK INJURIES
A ten point program for optimal spinal health.

1. Basic spinal anatomy (A quick look around the back)
2. Injury reduction methods by using simple posture changes
3. Injury recovery made faster with self-help techniques
4. Injury prevention stretching and flexibility program
5. Warm-up exercises (preparing for work or sport)
6. Spinal workout (Five minute daily exercise routine)
7. Home care do's and don'ts (common sense rules)
8. Spinal safety 12 essentials
9. Awkward Lifting Procedures for difficult situations
10. Driver's back care rules (any type of vehicle)

This two hour session will create awarness of spinal safety and will teach simple and effective methods of preventing back injury. The incidence of work related back injury is on the increase; this means increased human suffering with consequences that can last for years, lost production and disruption to the efficiency of the workplace, and considerable expense to both the injured employee and the employer.

 

The usual cause is carelessness or ignorance, oversight or undertraining.

BACK AT WORK emphasises responsibility and personal involvement in back safety, we teach "prevention", and we assess every employee individually to ensure that they go back to work with full awareness of back safety.

 

If a worker has not been taught how to safely lift, carry, bend, sit, reach, stand or drive; Injury will happen!

Awareness is prevention.

 

If a worker has not been taught to rest or exercise the right way, there is a greater risk of injury. Non-work related injuries can "appear" at work and become a "work injury".

 

Awareness is responsibility.

The MOST EXPENSIVE OPTION is treatment after the injury has occurred. Rising costs of insurance, treatment and compensation have made injury PREVENTION the only sane approach in the management of work related back injury.

Back injury is the single greatest cause of worker injury, the greatest single cost.

 

Invest in worker safety.

 

Employers that educate have a more reliable and productive workforce.

 

Call BACK AT WORK on (07) 5527 3002 for more information.