Not-with-standing the significance of enhancements to workplace setups, utilisation of mechanical aids and efficient workflow; among other critical elements in preventing injuries, the GOLD in preventing manual handling-related injuries is to teach individuals the safe movement habits of ‘Physically Intelligent’ individuals.

Finding a suitable mouse for your workstation is crucial in ensuring a safe and comfortable working environment.

The next step focuses on the practical application of the principles learnt in steps 1 and 2 and once your people understand the fundamentals of these steps, the principles they’ve learnt or experienced may be applied to nearly any activity.

By physically experiencing the effects of different movement techniques, individuals may truly understand how their bodies respond and make informed decisions on how to avoid strain and promote overall physical well-being. 

If you initially teach individuals how to use their bodies effectively and safely when they are doing these common activities, you can then apply these safe movement principles to any activity.

The success of manual handling training is often questioned due to numerous studies suggesting its ineffectiveness. Therefore, it is important to consider what the true purpose of this training is and whether the implemented programmes are designed to achieve those objectives. Ultimately, the goal of manual handling training should be to enhance individuals' interaction with their surroundings; consequently reducing the risk of physical harm such as muscular discomfort and injuries related to activities like pushing, pulling, carrying, lifting, bending, and sustained gripping.

One point of difference with Proventions’ very successful First Move Manual Handling programme is that it prioritises and reinforces an implementation of using cues to develop safe manual handling habits.

There are many contributing factors to shoulder pain and many components to a successful treatment once injured.    However a vital (and often overlooked) contributor in avoiding and treating shoulder pain is thoracic mobility.

If you initially teach individuals how to use their bodies effectively and safely when they are doing these common activities, you can then apply these safe movement principles to any activity.

This short article is worth a read and re-enforces many of the principles we have seen work in practice over the years.

Experience has shown us from teaching 10’s of thousands of people to move at their hips this way of moving can be literally life changing. It’s nothing new age – just going back to moving the way humans are designed to move.

Our easy-to-use resource kit allows you to continue reinforcing safe movement behaviour long after your First Move Manual Handling training has taken place.

Provention is excited to announce that we are now working with leading-edge wearable technology from Preventure to further support our clients in mitigating workplace injury risk.

Working from Home comes with its ‘upsides and downsides.’ One of the downsides is that most people are sitting for longer periods and are moving around less than they are in the office environment.

Manual Handling related injuries are costing NZ businesses millions of dollars a year. Despite all the money spent on injury prevention programmes, strain-sprain injuries continue to be the biggest injury cost for most businesses.

It has been well documented that many people suffer injuries when returning to work after a long break. Provention has a resource aimed at giving individuals the knowledge and skills to prevent injuries occurring after Lockdown. It is targeted at those workers doing physical job roles that have gone from ‘full on’ to ‘full off’. This resource is aimed at making them ‘match fit’ so their transition back to work is injury free.

Many of us are keeping sane by doing physical chores at home. Activities such as gardening, cleaning out the garage, spring cleaning and moving furniture around. Doing these types of activities and keeping busy is great for our mental as well as our physical well-being, but unfortunately many people injure themselves as well.

It is common for mums to experience back, elbow or shoulder pain associated with the tasks required to care for babies and children. Learn these simple tips on how to move safely to help you take care of yourself while you take care of others.

Learn the number one hip and lower back exercise to increase mobility and reduce injury. This simple exercise will help balance the effects of sitting and prevent back pain.