Manual Task Program
With over a third of workplace injuries associated with manual tasks, we guide employees through best practices for lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or holding a load, object or person. To ensure our education helps to protect an employee’s fitness for work, we tailor training to cover duties specific to each workplace.
Our allied health professionals assess the physical demands unique to each role and each workplace, then tailor training to cover the impact of duties specific to each work situation, with particular attention paid to impacts on employee musculoskeletal functioning. Our Manual Task Program aims to empower employees to take responsibility for their own safety and physical wellbeing, covering:
- Manual task risk factors include forceful exertions, awkward and static postures, vibration, repetition, and duration.
- The importance of risk assessments in relation to lifting, lowering, pushing, pulling, carrying, moving, holding, or restraining any person, animal or thing.
- Safe methods of lifting, pushing, pulling and carrying - focusing on correct postures, positioning and breathing.
- Risk factors for workplace-specific issues such as Carpel Tunnel Syndrome, Occupational Overuse Syndrome and shoulder injuries.
- The importance of stretching, strengthening, sleep and diet to injury prevention.
- A discussion of manual task practises specific to your work environment.
