Training isn’t just important – it is vital! So it’s vital that you get your message across. As a Manual Handling trainer, you are well aware of the importance of training and refreshing your delegates. These benefits are varied and wide reaching, both to your company as a whole, and to the individual employees: Improved […]
Top 5 tips for improving staff morale
Do your employees drag themselves into work? Is a smile a vague memory? If so, your employees’ morale may need a boost. Low morale can lead to poor cooperation, low productivity and increased staff turnover – and ultimately hinder a business from reaching its goals. Since employee morale can quickly build or break a company’s […]
Cutting-Edge DSE Risk Assessment tool from Osteopaths for Industry
Are you responsible for the health and safety of your colleagues? Do they use computers at their desks? The latest report from the Office of National Statistics states that the most common reason for absence from work is due to back, neck and muscle pain. So with millions of us spending all day glued to […]
Moving and Handling Training: The Bariatric Patient
As obesity levels increase in the UK, the care of the bariatric patient has extended over the past few years. Now, their care is not limited to just hospitals, but community health care, care homes, residential homes, ambulance services, operating theatres, and even funeral homes. Staff involved with Moving and Handling can find challenges and […]
The Bariatric Suit: A Proven Training Tool
Obesity in the United Kingdom is a growing health concern, with health officials stating that it is now one of the leading causes of preventable deaths. Adult obesity rates have almost quadrupled in the last 25 years. ‘Bariatrics’ is a term given to a branch of medicine that deals specifically with the treatment of obesity […]
How to reduce desk-related aches and pains
Are you one of the silent majority of desk workers that suffer from some form of arm, neck, shoulder or back pain due to a ‘workstation’ that is not correctly fitted to you? You would not start driving a car without first adjusting the seat and mirrors to give a comfortable fit, so why don’t […]
The Mobile Technology Explosion
Technology is an immense and constantly evolving sector from which a new device seems to be launched every week, the advance in the development of mobile computer devises have allowed us the flexibility to be able to work almost anywhere. Modern day employment has harnessed these powerful facilities, loading expectations on employees who now have […]
Are We Getting Musculoskeletal Conditions from Technology?
Technology continues to evolve and become an integral part of our daily lives at a frightening pace. The Display Screen Equipment (DSE) Regulations and Guidance from the HSE offers help and advice for the Display Screen Equipment user, sat at a desk working on a computer and keyboard; however what about our activity in relation […]
The Importance of Adjusting Your Chair Correctly
Carole Waltens, Senior DSE Assessor and Physiotherapist – OFI, talks about adjusting your chair correctly. For the majority of us, an office based working role demands a significant amount of our time sitting in a chair at a computer. It seems the most innocent of environments with regards to risk, but physiotherapists and osteopaths […]