How "Lift With Your Legs, Not Your Back" Instruction May Lead To Employee Back Injuries
- Room: Versailles 4
- Session Number: PM9
Thursday, November 04, 2021: 2:00 PM - 2:50 PM
Speaker(s)
Description
The presentation will provide attendees the skills and knowledge to enhance their employee resilience and resistance to encountering a back injury from material handling tasks. More specifically, the session will focus on enhancing existing ergonomic programs to include science based pre-work exercises that effectively prepare employees to safely lift and transport material. During the session attendees will learn about the science of movement patterns and exercise program design as well as how to effectively coach employees to perform safe lifting techniques using various lifting and transporting strategies.
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Learning Objectives
understand how the science of movement patterns and how it relates to material handling
understand how to create effective pre-work exercise programs that will improve safe lifting techniques used by employees
Understand how to apply the safe lifting technique to various material handling senarios