Reduce the risk of injury in the workplace… but then know what to do if the unexpected occurs!
Prepared & Presented by: Michael Peachey (Physiotherapist)
Do you work in the health care industry and want to make your career a long, productive, and pain free one?
Or are you an aged care provider who wants to minimize risk, ensure staff safety, and be proactive in reducing staff injury rates?
You’re not alone. The health care industry is a high-risk industry due to the amount of manual handling involved, however nearly all injuries are entirely preventable if some general principles are followed. It’s a matter of getting the right information regarding knowledge, skills, and developing some healthy habits.
This is why Wellness & Lifestyles has created “Staff Injury Prevention”, which helps to solve these issues.
What This Training Can Do For You?
If you work at a health care facility, this session can help you understand some aspects of how injuries occur, how to prevent acute injuries, how to reduce the risk of strains and sprains, and what to do (and what not to do) in case of the unexpected.
If you’re a supervisor a health care facility, this session can help your staff learn all of this… but then give you peace of mind that you’re doing more for your staff to maintain a happy and productive workforce.
Included In This Training Is…:
- An overview of the high risk industry – putting it in context
- A step-by-step approach to reducing patient/resident manual handling injuries
- Principles and techniques for all manual handling
- Work preparation (hydration, warming-up, stretching)
- Posture reversal – undoing the stress
- Immediate treatment – what to do in case of injury
- Immediate treatment – what NOT to do in case of injury
Who Should Use This Training?
You should go through this training if you work at a health care facility, or you are a supervisor of those who work at a facility… a common ground will help develop a culture of reduced risk, and improved health and wellbeing of all people in the facility!
This presentation was developed at an aged care facility’s request. They were upset at the number of work related injuries they were experiencing, especially since it was identified that EVERY injury was preventable. The staff were sore. It was a lose-lose situation. After watching this presentation the nursing staff felt more confident in how to prepare themselves for work, and the facility was happier in their now happier and more productive work-force.
Not all problems can be resolved by watching a quick presentation, and then taking this information and applying it. Everyone is different, have different roles-and-responsibilities, and some people have some pre-existing conditions that may mean they need a more specific approach. This is why this presentation was developed in such a way that it’s broad and general, relevant to most staff. By all parties being able watch the same presentation, it straight away produces some common ground to facilitate productive conversation, and more specific follow-up by their own health care provider.
Healthcare is hard work, and the client base is always expanding. It’s not going to get easier. Watching this presentation helps get everyone on board to understand why it’s so important to remain injury free for the most important person in the facility – yourself. We believe this is the best way to solve this problem, because it gets everyone sharing common beliefs, and develops a culture of everyone trying to maintain their own health.
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