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Employee education and training programs encourage individual responsibility for injury prevention, and enhance morale and productivity. Classes are interactive and include lecture, demonstration, coaching, problem solving and practice designed around injury prevention.
CLASSES CAN BE TAILORED TO SPECIFIC RISK FACTORS AND TASKS REQUIRED IN VARIOUS JOBS, INCLUDING:
- New Employee Training and Job Site Coaching: To promote individual responsibility for injury prevention, safe work habits, risk factors;
- Body Mechanics Classes: To help ensure safe work habits, identify poor ergonomic practices, minimize workplace risks, and provide practice and practical exercises to reduce injury;
- Back Safety Education: To educate employees about the anatomy of the back and neck, posture, neutral positions, body mechanics and preventive exercises. Practice sessions can be held in the work area for jobs requiring lifting and pushing, or office jobs emphasizing workstation set-up, work habits, keyboarding and mousing;
- Repetitive Strain Injury Classes: To address risk factors, workstation set-up, task rotation and preventive exercises to remain injury free;
- Ergonomics Training Classes: To help employees learn how to evaluate and optimize their workstations, performance and comfort, including posture, chair adjustments, monitor height and distance, mousing and keyboarding;
- Management Training Seminars: To help managers learn to identify poor ergonomic practices in the workplace, implement preventive measures, increase workplace safety awareness, and learn effective communication strategies regarding workplace safety;
- Injury Prevention Committees and Train-the-Trainer Trainings: To identify poor ergonomic practices, solutions for eliminating or minimizing potential risks, preventive exercises to reduce injury, and strategies for educating others in injury prevention;
- Safe Keyboard and Mousing Training: To teach important keyboard/mouse techniques, postural education and workstation set-up that can significantly increase employee comfort and productivity, and minimize injuries such as carpal tunnel syndrome.
- Exercise Programs: Exercise routines to effectively counteract awkward postures and repetitive motions performed by employees can promote flexibility, prevent injury, and improve employee productivity and morale.
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