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Early Intervention: Your Safety Team’s Strategic Advantage

Learn how your safety team can achieve better health outcomes, create significant business value, and shape a better safety culture with a strategic early intervention initiative.

Early Intervention: Your Safety Team’s Strategic Advantage

Ergonomics

How Ergonomics Can Impact Social Security Disability Cases

Take a look at numbers from the Social Security Disability program, and you can see these conditions clearly play a role in how many people apply for these federal government benefits. Of the 778,796 disabled workers the program reported in 2014, the largest category had diagnoses with musculoskeletal and connective tissue diseases. The group amounted to 31.2 percent of disabled workers in the program.

How Ergonomics Can Impact Social Security Disability Cases

Ergonomics for Truckers

Truck drivers often sit for long periods of time, which puts stress on the lower back. This video identifies things truck drivers can do before they start work to reduce the risk of back injury.

Video: Ergonomics for Truckers

Workplace Athlete Health

The Sports Medicine Model of Care for Occupational Athletes

Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines the word ‘athlete’ as a person who is trained or skilled in exercises, sports, games, or activities requiring physical strength, agility or stamina. Your employees are athletes in their own right. They perform repetitive and sometimes vigorous activities, which lead to accidents and injuries. The anatomy of a baseball player who throws 120 pitches in a game is no different than a person working on a manufacturing line who reaches overhead eight hours per day.

The Sports Medicine Model of Care for Occupational Athletes

Is Exercise Important for Workplace Athletes?

“There comes a point in almost every fitness lover’s life when they consider throwing in the towel after a workout—both figuratively and literally. Blame it on your looming work deadlines, or the stubborn needle on the scale, or even just plain old boredom.”

Is Exercise Important for Workplace Athletes?

Safety Leadership

Negative Messages in Safety

“Don’t do this. Don’t do that. Don’t do what he did. Beware of the danger. Employed use of gruesome photos of severed and mutilated body parts. Safety messages are regularly reinforced negatively. Negative reinforcement does not automatically create positive safety behaviors.”

3 Reasons Your Negative Messages Are Undermining Safety