Introduction to Worksafe

Work related injuries can deliver a significant cost in financial, organizational, and human terms.

Physio Plus can assist employers reduce these costs by providing specialized occupational injury prevention initiatives, and working with you to develop and implement individualized and effective injury prevention strategies.

Physio Plus training and education programs can provide you with important tools to support and reinforce a healthy and safe workplace.  These programs are useful to promote awareness of specific issues and strategies to assist in the management of a range of health and injury related challenges faced by your employees.

These initiatives, when delivered in conjunction with the "front-line" strategy of Pre-Employment Screening, will provide employers with a comprehensive, effective and sustainable Injury Prevention Program.

The implementation of these injury prevention initiatives will also further assist employers develop:

  • Healthy employee attitudes to work safety
  • A workplace culture that encourages and respects individual and organisational commitment to work safety, and
  • Organisational independence and competency to facilitate successful long-term self-management

 

Work-Safe: Staff Education Program

Manual Handling for a safer workplace

Introduction

  • Manual Handling injuries in the workplace
  • Consequences of spinal pain
  • Anatomy and Function of the spine
  • Effects of poor working posture and lifting technique on the spine
  • Key causes of workplace back injury
  • Mechanisms of spinal disc injury

Manual Handling

  • Risk factors in manual handling and work postures
  • General Guidelines - for lifting & manual handling techniques
  • Safe Manual Handling Procedure
  • Prevention strategies - take control today
  • Exercise for back care - Exercise on the job.

Brainstorming - Integrated Problem Solving:

  • Specific solutions for specific manual handling tasks

N.B: A summary report outlining identified risks and proposed solutions will be provided to management at the completion of the training.

Evaluation

  • Evaluation of participants knowledge
  • Participant's evaluation of presentation

Presented by:
Tim Boyd (MAAESS, AEP)
Exercise Physiologist

Duration: 120 minutes                               

Group Numbers: max 18

Location: Your workplace

Investment: $495.00 + gst

 

OFFICE-Safe: STAFF EDUCATION PROGRAM

Healthy work practice for a safer workplace

Introduction

  • The conflict between human design and the modern work office.
  • Consequences of workplace pain and injury
  • Potential effects of work postures and repetitive movements - pain and injury
  • Key causes of workplace pain and injury

Prevention of Workplace pain and injury

  • Personal strategies
  • Task and posture strategies
  • Manual Handling strategies
  • Interval exercise strategies

Office Ergonomics

  • Computer set-up checklist
  • General Office Environment checklist

Problem Solving pain at work

  • A checklist of solutions to workplace fatigue and pain

Brainstorming - Integrated Problem Solving:

  • Specific solutions for problematic tasks or environments

N.B: A summary report outlining identified risks and proposed solutions will be provided to management at the completion of the training.

Evaluation

  • Evaluation of participants knowledge
  • Participant's evaluation of presentation

Presented by:

Tim Boyd (MAAESS, AEP)
Exercise Physiologist                                                                                                                                 

Duration: 90 minutes                               

Group Numbers: max 15

Location: Your workplace

Investment: $395.00 + gst