Workplace Injury Research Round Up | Part 5

How can you help your staff?

Recognise where conventional training isn’t enough for your workforce

In March 2024, the International Journal of Industrial Economics published an article that sums up exactly why Terrain Safe exists:

Traditional ‘how to lift’ style training doesn’t work.

As an employer, you must provide suitable and sufficient training for your employees to keep them informed, safe, and adequately skilled in delivering their role. While traditional manual handling training is part of your duties, there is a need for more effective MSD risk management to be used in industry. 

There is still a research gap here, and there is usually a lag between research and practice, but you can be at the forefront of this change. There is ample evidence in physiotherapy, personal training, corrective exercise, and strength and conditioning that can be tailored to support and protect your workforce.

This is the time for cross disciplinary approaches to managing physical safety in the workplace.

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