What can an early intervention professional do for your company?
In the industrial setting keeping an employee healthy and working to their full potential on a daily basis takes more than knowing the job, providing a safe working environment, and having a nurse onsite. Having only a nurse onsite is beneficial for treating minor injuries, checking vital signs, and referrals to a physician.
An early intervention professional can provide vital injury prevention strategies, health, and wellness tips focusing on the individual employee’s entire well-being. Injury Prevention
The leading cause of work injuries are due to overexertion and poor body mechanics awareness, associated with the use of small and large muscles which fatigue from repetitive motions of grasping, lifting, carrying and reaching. These preventable injuries have resulted in more than $15 billion a year in direct workers compensation costs. An injury prevention program including employee education addressing body mechanics awareness, stretching, strengthening, and lifting along with ergonomic job task assessments and tool evaluations can help reduce the risk of injuries, keeping employees healthy and associated medical costs low.
Why you should choose Athletic Training Services to assist your company with worker’s compensation costs?
Athletic Training Services can offer assistance with any of these prevention programs as a short term consult or long term onsite presence to build a culture of early intervention and quick resolution of most work place musculoskeletal injuries.
The early intervention professional can be on the floor looking at the way an employee has to position themselves to do a particular job and help them put into practice what we discover together. We can provide direct therapy treatments and counsel employee’s before an ache turns into an injury. We can assist the company by performing functional demand assessments of jobs, work conditioning programs, pre-employment functional demand task evaluations during the medical screening process; and other ergonomic improvements.
Our early intervention professionals are comprised of licensed physical therapists and athletic trainers who specialize in the physical status and functionality of workers. We provide education and care to help workers know how to prevent, accelerate recovery from injuries, and improve function.
We focus on preventing the work place injury by integrating core strengthening, flexibility, and stability training in the functional aspects of the workers’ movements.
Exercise programs
The benefits of regular exercise can energize an employee, help them maintain a healthy weight, lower their health and injury risks, and assist the body’s response to the physical demands of working.
Stretching programs
Many companies have a group stretching program tailored to the physical demands and frequently used muscles on the job. When an employee is flexible in key areas of the body it helps to prevent overuse, lifting, and the severity of sudden injuries from lifting, bending, and reaching.
Ergonomic Programs
Ergonomics is used to help the worker and the company provide the best biomechanical advantage for the worker. Proper ergonomic design is necessary to prevent repetitive strain injuries and other musculoskeletal disorders, which can develop over time and can lead to long-term disability.
Human factors and ergonomics is concerned with the "fit" between the user, equipment and their environments. It takes account of the user's capabilities and limitations in seeking to ensure that tasks, functions, information and the environment suit each user.
To assess the fit between a person and the used technology, human factors specialists or ergonomists consider the job (activity) being done and the demands on the user; the equipment used (its size, shape, and how appropriate it is for the task), and the information used (how it is presented, accessed, and changed). Ergonomics draws on many disciplines in its study of humans and their environments, including anthropometry, biomechanics, mechanical engineering, and industrial engineering.
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