The most common injury keeping people off work for more than a week is muscular stress from manual handling. First Move is the proven programme that consistently reduces manual handling injuries by 60% or more.
Tell us about your workplace and we'll shape a programme around it.
What changes when your people move well
Improve individuals' physical wellbeing across every part of their life
Reduce injury and injury-related costs
Fewer absences and less disruption
Retain skilled employees for longer
Improve morale
Optimise efficiency and performance of work
Why most manual handling training doesn't work
Most training tells people what to do. It doesn't change how they move.
Incorrect instructions like 'bend your knees', information that isn't relevant to your workplace, and one-off sessions that are forgotten within a month, mean the same people keep getting hurt doing the same jobs.
If you're looking for an effective programme to address strain-related injuries, tailored to your environment, we have the solution.
Physical skills are learned by doing and comparing, not by watching theory. Our interactive style keeps employees engaged and shows them how to apply simple principles across every part of their life, at work and at home.
Under the Health and Safety at Work Act, employers must take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure the health and safety of employees at work. Identifying and controlling manual handling hazards is one of those steps.
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The feedback from First Move has been outstanding. Staff who regularly went home with a sore back or body are seeing up to a 90% reduction in discomfort. Couldn't be happier with the result, especially now we're in peak processing heading into Christmas.
Josh Rea, Warehouse Manager, Pet Direct
Embed safe movement practices
First Move Manual Handling is more than a one-off training programme. With over 15 years working with New Zealand and Australian businesses, we know sustainable results need buy- in at every level, from senior leadership to the people doing the handling.
We're experts in safe movement and injury prevention; your employees are the experts in your business. First Move combines both so the programme fits your operation and your people.
Habit-building principles are built in, which is what makes the training engaging and the results long-term.
Provention’s First Move programmes equip individuals with the knowledge to move, think and look after their physical well-being, creating habitual movement and preventing injury.
