Back Safety in the Workplace

Back Safety

More and more Americans suffer from back injuries at work. Back injuries can include spinal damage, shoulder problems and lower back pains. Too many employees might assume a history free of back injury means they are not at risk. However, it only takes one serious injury to change their minds and their lives.

As a society, we know how to recognize early clues of heart attacks and keep our hearts healthy. However, too many U.S. employees do not know the warning signs or the preventative measures available to stop “back attacks.”

Back Safety in the Workplace

According to the National Institute for Health Statistics, more U.S. employees suffer from lower back pain as a work-related medical problem than any other affliction, and lower back pains are the top reason most employees miss work. More than 20 million suffer from low back problems, and it is the second-most common reason they visit the doctor. The leading cause of disability among adults (ages 19-45) is lower back problems. It can be safely estimated 80 percent of all working U.S. citizens will experience back problems at some point in their lives. Besides physical pain, U.S. employees also hurt in their wallets. They pay $60 billion in back treatments each year, and U.S. businesses fork over $15 billion annually because of back injuries.

SafetyArc.com knows what back safety training can do for an individual and company. SafetyArc.com understands what businesses can and should be saving if employees were better trained on how to prevent and deal with back injuries. They know back injuries can be prevented by organizations that offer improved back safety training courses. Warning labels and cartoons on the walls and cubicles have not been enough to fight against back injuries and have not done enough to promote back safety. SafetyArc.com offers interactive and beneficial training courses to any organization interested in improving its back safety training and thereby saving billions of dollars on back treatment and hours of back pain.

Back Safety Training

Most organizations fail to teach proper lifting or any other types of back safety training. Perhaps the company will post signs or storyboards to educate employees about back safety. However, the data tells us this is not enough.

To help your organization better train its employees on preventative measures to ensure back safety, techniques for repeated heavy lifting, or simply promoting a work environment conducive to back safety, SafetyArc.com offers interactive and effective courses on back safety training. The course lasts only 19 minutes and involves the employee through video, audio and learning extras. Assessments are also included to ensure the material is not only learned but retained. These courses can be taken anywhere where an Internet connection is available. Click here to learn more about SafetyArc.com’s online Back Safety training course.