IMPACC is a Work Injury Prevention & Ergonomics Program for business and industry... targets back injury, tendinitis, and other overuse disorders of the musculo-skeletal system... and an emphasis on the Aging Worker. Evaluate workplace to identify MSD risk factors . Written report details these risks for each job, why these are risk, and list various options to abate those risks.
2. Educate managers-supervisors on these findings and what leadership can do to reduce these risks... a leadership level MSD SCHOOL seminar.
3. The core of our program: Employee WorkSmart MSD School, teaching all employees personal ergonomics skills and tactics, modifications in work techniques, best body mechanics methods, posture stress control tactics, how to reverse work pain issues, self-care tactics on the job and after work to maximize recovery. What are the specific startegies that work?
>Ergonomics changes in workstations, seating, tools, techniques.
>Exposure reduction via sit-stand options and task rotation.
>Work re-organization, policies, effective claims responses.
>Micro-stretching targeting specific body parts per job risks.
>After-work recovery stretches.
>Aging worker wellness strategies. We seek to provide the workplace with a range of multiple choices for reducing MSD risks. No one tactic is highly effective, but a package of tactics properly selected and implemented does work. We also advise on how to minimize Worker Comp costs and disabilities through encouraging early reporting (if you have good reponse procedures), proper resposnse to pain complaints, proper use of good health care providers, effective restricted duty processes, new employee orientation. We have provided this program at more than 600 workplaces in every type of work setting since 1982. Our client workplaces have seen dramatic reductions in MSD claims, costs, lost days. Today 80% of our present workplace clients ar repeat customers, a testament to our effectiveness. This is prvided by ORTHOPEDIC PHYSICAL THERAPISTS, the MOST highly trained professionals specializing in musculo-skeletal pain and injury. We go BEYOND a narrow focus on ERGONOMICS. There is so much more to MSD an ergonomics.
