This training exercise can be used with all employees. Its objective is to ensure that employees understand how to prevent back injuries at work and at home.
Instruct employees to fill out the worksheet below:
1. List 5 activities you conduct at work that put your back safety at risk and what safe technique(s) to use for each activity to protect your back.
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2. List 5 activities you conduct at home that put your back safety at risk and what safe technique(s) to use for each activity to protect your back.
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3. List 5 general strategies for maintaining back safety.
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Guidance
Take some time to discuss employees’ answers to the worksheet. Here are general points you can use during the discussion of all three questions.
Strategies for back safety include:
- Exercise to strengthen your back and reduce stress.
- Lose excess weight.
- Maintain good posture.
- Plan your lift.
- Position yourself correctly in front of the load.
- Lift with your legs, not with your back.
- Set the load down correctly.
- Get help, if needed.
Remember
Preventing a back injury is much easier than repairing one. Because your back is critically important to your ability to walk, sit, stand, and run, it’s important to take care of it. Most back pain arises from using your back improperly, so learning a few basic rules about lifting, posture, and proper exercise can help keep your back in good shape.
The material in today’s Advisor is adapted from “Back Safety Training,” a session in BLR’s HR Library on TrainingToday®.
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