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September 23, 2020 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

Back Pain Top Tips

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Back pain is one of the most common reasons for people in the UK to see a doctor or take time off work. Modern day life of sitting for many hours in poor postural positions can place stresses and strains on the spine, which may not cause discomfort immediately, but can build up over time. […]

Filed Under: Seated Posture, Workstation Safety & DSE Training Tagged With: back pain

March 24, 2020 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

Working from home

Tips for setting up your computer workstation & staying physically healthy when homeworking Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, many people are now working from home, and for most of us, this will be an entirely new experience and a significant change to our daily routine. Working from home presents many new challenges, both physically and […]

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January 26, 2018 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

Supporting the HSE Go Home Healthy campaign

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Osteopaths For Industry are supporting the HSE’s Go Home Healthy campaign to ensure employers know the risks of work-related ill health and enable them to do the right thing. Everyone has the right to go home healthy from work. Find out more by visiting the HSE Go Home Healthy website. You can also download a free HSE Go Home Healthy information pack.

Filed Under: Manual Handling, Training methods

June 17, 2016 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

The Importance of Good Posture

You’ve no doubt seen this sign before. It is a sign often used near care homes up and down the country, to warn motorists of elderly people crossing the road. The sign has sparked criticism from some for the way it depicts older people. Its not a debate I’m going to get involved with but […]

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June 10, 2016 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

Revolutionary Simplicity in Manual Handling Training

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I recently read a story about a brilliant, pioneering doctor called Peter Provonost. Dr Provonost introduced a revolutionary protocol that saved thousands of lives. His revolutionary technique did not involve nano-technology, he didn’t look inside people’s brains with functional magnetic resonance imaging. In fact, his protocol was revolutionary only in its simplicity – he introduced […]

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June 2, 2016 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

Safer Manual Handling – Changing Habits

Anyone who has ever attended an Osteopaths For Industry training course will have heard a discussion about habits. A question we like to ask delegates is “Why don’t we lift with good technique, even though we know we should?” The number one answer we always get is – ‘habit’. A habit is a routine of […]

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October 19, 2015 By OFI Training Team 4 Comments

Moving and Handling in the Health and Social Care industry

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Employees in the health and social care sectors may be involved in moving and handling activities such as moving equipment, laundry, catering, distributing supplies or assisting patients/residents in moving. The moving and handling of people is a regular task in health and social care, which if not done safely, can cause serious injury to service […]

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October 18, 2015 By OFI Training Team 2 Comments

Manual Handling – Top 10 Tips infographic

Download our Manual Handling ‘Top 10 Tips’ infographic and share it with your colleagues or workforce. Download in Abobe PDF format. Download in JPEG picture format. [right-click and choose ‘Save as…’]

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July 20, 2015 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

Don’t take your health for granted – How to avoid upper limb disorders

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As human beings, ironically, it is often the body’s more vital functions that we take for granted – for example, the beating of our heart, or the movement of our rib cage inflating our lungs. Unless something goes wrong, we almost forget about the role these vital functions play in keeping us alive. Even in areas […]

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July 1, 2015 By OFI Training Team Leave a Comment

Dynamic Risk Assessment – the Onion Model

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‘The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice……’ R.D. Laing How many of us, when undertaking risk assessment, sometimes fail to see ‘the wood for the trees’? With any job, becoming entangled in wider workplace issues may end up blurring our focus on the tasks at hand. An adequate […]

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