Tips on how to improve your working practices.
If you are constantly experiencing high levels of staff absenteeism due to sickness or work-related injury, then maybe it is time to look at your working practices. An injury management program helps you do just that and supports you in implementing essential changes in your approach and practice.
It is too often assumed that only those involved in manual jobs can suffer from physical stresses and strains due to their job. However, this isn’t true, and workers who spend most of their day at a desk are just as likely to develop neck, shoulder, back, and arm pains. They are also at high risk of eye strain and fatigue due to long periods of sitting in the wrong position at a desk or staring at a computer screen. The result of this is increased time off work and lower productivity levels, after all, no one works to their fullest capacity when they are exhausted, uncomfortable or in pain.
However, there is a simple solution: to develop new best practice working guidelines as part of a corporate wellness intervention. Hiring a team of experts to assess your workspace, talk to employees, and make recommendations based on the results will result in a huge difference in the focus and productivity around you. As part of an injury prevention and management program, staff can also be shown how to help themselves and be introduced to better sitting, typing, phone answering, and equipment using techniques that reduce their risks of stress, strain, and injuries.
Injury Prevention Training Programs For Your Business
There is little worse than waking up in pain in the morning, knowing that you have to go to work and spend the day in a position that will make the pain worse. However, this is probably how many of your employees feel every day. You can help prevent this and improve safety with workplace injury prevention training programs.
Many workplace injuries are preventable, and so is the pain and time off needed to recuperate. All that is needed to achieve this is a better understanding of the effects of elements such as bad posture and poor working practices on the body. A great deal of research has been undertaken into the effects of sitting at a desk all day and of working at a computer screen for extended periods of time. However, the illness problems remain because either companies and staff are not aware of the correlations or they do not know how to make the changes necessary to prevent or minimize the problems.
Injury prevention and management starts with knowledge, which is gained through training and support from professionals. Training as part of a corporate wellness initiative allows business owners, managers, and employees to understand what is wrong with the workspace, how it can be improved, and, just as importantly, what they can do as individuals to support their own body’s needs and reduce the stresses and strains that the musculoskeletal system is put under daily. Small things, from properly adjusted chairs and screens to effective typing positions, can make all the difference. You can also provide advice on health outside of the workplace, from gym memberships to advice on the best BCAA and nutritional advice.
So there you have it: everything you need to know about working practices and injuries.
