Early Intervention Services
Our staff are available to offer advice and conduct assessments to ensure your staff are at lesser risk of developing or sustaining a workplace injury. We offer a range of preventative services aimed at decreasing the number of sick days and workers compensation claims within your business. These services include Ergonomic Assessments, Manual Handling Training and Worksite Visits. At the completion of all assessments we provide your management team with a comprehensive report confirming our findings and recommendations to improve the problem areas.
Our consultants are available to provide expert advice and conduct assessments to ensure your staff are at lesser risk of developing or sustaining a workplace injury. We offer a range of preventative services aimed at decreasing the number of sick days and workers compensation claims within your business.
These services include:
- Manual Handling & Injury Prevention Training
- Pre-employment Assessments
- Ergonomic Workstation Assessments
- Worksite Assessments
- Injury Management Education
We provide professional advice on how to:
- Minimize risk of accidents and injuries in the workplace
- Decrease no. of sick days, lost time injuries and workers compensation claims
- Improve staff productivity
- Ensure safe work patterns
At the completion of all assessments our consultants provide your management team with a comprehensive report confirming our findings and recommendations to improve problem areas.
Manual Handling & Injury Prevention Training
Our Manual Handling training programs are customised to each industry and your business needs. Each program covers both theoretical and practical components to ensure maximum results and information retention.
Our training programs cover a range of topics including correct and safe manual handling techniques, anatomy and biomechanics of injuries, improving work fitness and instruction on appropriate stretches and postural exercises to minimise risk of injury or re-aggravation. Each training program is designed specifically for the audience and focuses on the main manual handling problems associated with the chosen industry.
Our Manual Handling training promotes safe working practices and delivers knowledge and techniques that empowers self-reliance and personal responsibility, which increases productivity and decreases lost time injuries, sick days and workers compensation claims.
Work Site Visit - preparation prior to Training Program
We will be required to perform a work-site visit to your business. This enables us to determine and confirm a ‘work task’ list. This list will comprise of all work tasks performed at your business, frequency of each task performed, and any equipment or tools required to perform each task. The purpose of this visit is to help our staff prepare for the training program and to ensure we tailor the theoretical and practical components specific to your centres and staff roles. At the completion of this visit we will provide you with a detailed report.
Purpose of Training Program
- To teach staff safe manual handling and movement techniques specific to your industry
- To increase staff awareness of injury mechanisms and how to prevent injuries
- To teach staff correct safe work postures
- To encourage staff to self-manage their own physical fitness to ensure they are fit and healthy to perform their role
- To provide staff with practical techniques on how to improve posture, physical fitness and prevent injuries
Outline of Training Program
Our training program covers a range of topics related to injury prevention and manual handling;
Theory -
- Injury risk factors & causes of pain
- Types of injuries (specific to your industry)
- Posture and movement of body
- Principals of safe movement
- Common manual handling activities (specific to your industry)
- Injury prevention
- Physical fitness
Practical –
- Stretches to prevent injuries and to manage pain
- Postural awareness exercises
- Safe working postures
- Manual handling techniques
Pre-Employment Assessments
Pre employment assessments can serve you, the employer as a risk management tool by helping ensure potential and current employees are capable of safely undertaking a specific job. If you are employing a new staff member or a current staff member has changed roles within your business our consultants provide a comprehensive pre-employment assessment to ensure they can safely perform demands of their intended position. Our pre-employment assessment involves assessing an individual job applicant's physical, functional or psychological capacity against those critical physical demands determined by the employer or recruitment agency as necessary to perform the job for which they are applying.
We assist you the employer in creating a safer work environment for your employees by providing effective and tailored pre-employment assessment to minimise legal and OH&S risks, while also supporting you with duty of care to your employees.
All our pre-employment assessments are specifically tailored to your business and duties of each individual position. We focus only on those requirements that are directly relevant to the employee's ability to perform the essential or core requirements of the position. We use the “WorkHab FCE system” to ensure continuity across all of our assessments. By using this system we can also provide you the employer with a detailed report upon completion of the assessment.
Whether developed as a fully individualised assessment, or using generic procedures for standard job types our pre employment assessments allow you the employer to answer the important questions of fitness for duty.
Our pre-employment assessments offer:
- Audiometry
- Spirometry
- Drug Screening
- Musculo-Skeletal Assessment
- Functional & Dynamic Tolerances Assessment
Ergonomic Workstation Assessments
Our ergonomic workstation assessment involves the evaluation of the employee’s workstation and physical environment, and its interaction with the employee. The assessment involves assessing the need to adjust and make recommendations regarding a person's workstation. Postural analysis, physical and muscular work demands, workstation analysis, equipment and workplace design, workplace layout & the office environment, environmental factors - lighting, noise and temperature, and keyboard equipment, are all evaluated as part of the assessment.
Instruction is also provided to the person on injury prevention techniques, including suitable stretches and suggested rest breaks. A follow-up review may be conducted to ensure that recommendations are implemented. Implementing safe ergonomic principles ensures the person is provided with the knowledge and skills to prevent workplace injury, reoccurrence of injury, lost time and increase productivity.
Our ergonomic assessment report outlines the results of the assessment and recommendations for implementing any equipment that may be required to improve the person's workstation.
Worksite Assessment
A Worksite Assessment (sometimes referred to as a Workplace Evaluation) is a specialised on-site assessment of an employee's pre-injury duties and/or potential suitable duties.
The benefits of a thorough worksite visit is not only in the variety of resolutions to problems identified to be contributing, causing or aggravating workplace injuries; but it also allows our consultants to identify preventative options, such as risk assessments, ergonomic advice, and manual handling training, to ensure future injuries are minimised.
A worksite visit is also a useful tool for upgrading an employee's medical certificates or sourcing appropriate suitable duties. The aim of a worksite visit is to identify any problem work areas that may pose a risk of injury to the employees or even to design a Return to Work Plan for an injured employee that matches their current functional tolerances.
Injury Management Education
Our Injury Management Education sessions are customized to each industry and your business needs. These education sessions cover both theoretical and practical components to ensure understanding of the mechanisms of injuries.
These sessions can be run separately to our Manual Handling training programs, if you conduct your own in-house training. The sessions cover a range of topics including anatomy and biomechanics of injuries, managing injuries - acute and chronic, correct postures to minimise the occurrence of injuries or to decrease the pain associated with chronic injuries, and exercise to prevent injuries.
Our Injury Management education sessions promote self management and self assessment of the employees to be more active in identifying when they themselves may be at most risk of injury or re-aggravation.
We can provide Early Intervention, Injury Prevention and Manual Handling seminars/education tailored to specific industry environments (e.g. childcare, construction, banking, office administration, call centres etc). We run sessions for a minimum of 5 participants to a maximum of 20 participants as most of our sessions often involve practical components.