Apr 28, 2025 Injury Prevention and Lean Six Sigma Organizations are constantly striving to improve efficiency, reduce waste, and increase productivity. Lean Six Sigma can play a crucial role in injury prevention and plays a crucial role.
Nov 08, 2024 Role of Therapists in Injury Prevention Workplace injuries not only cause pain and suffering for employees but also have significant financial implications for employers. With the help of injury prevention services provided by therapists, many of these injuries can be prevented.
Oct 24, 2024 Injury Prevention and Office Ergonomics Whether you work in an office, a factory, or any other environment, practicing good ergonomics and injury prevention techniques is crucial for your long-term health and well-being.
Oct 11, 2024 Fit for Duty Testing in the Workplace Fit for duty testing plays a crucial role in achieving the safety and well-being of employees by ensuring that employees are physically capable of performing their job safely and effectively.
Sep 10, 2024 Benefits Of Hiring Outside Services For Fit For Duty Testing Benefits of hiring outside services to develop your fit for duty testing program is a smart choice and is critical component of workplace safety.
Aug 06, 2024 Injury Prevention Programs: How are my employees going to benefit? Companies are looking for ways to keep their employees healthy, avoid injuries, and increase retention rates. We recently looked at our national data to glean the value of injury prevention programs for employers and employees.
Jul 30, 2024 How Non-Work-Related Injuries Can Impact Employees and Employers Injuries can occur at any moment, often when they're least expected. Non-work-related injuries create a unique set of challenges and can have an impact in the workplace.
Jun 27, 2024 Gardening Benefits and Safety Tips Did you know the CDC classifies gardening as exercise?! The fresh air, and sun on your face can melt stress away, but it's also a fantastic way to improve flexibility, increase strength, and improve endurance all while burning calories.
Jun 10, 2024 The Power of Job Coaching as Part of Injury Prevention Injuries in the workplace can have devastating effects on an employee and company. Injury prevention and job coaching go hand in hand when it comes to creating a safe and healthy work environment - avoiding injuries altogether.
Jun 05, 2024 Benefits of Job Rotation for Employers and Employees Job rotation is where employees are shifted between different roles and tasks at regular intervals and can be a way to ensure employee safety and job satisfaction.
May 22, 2024 Understanding Injury Prevention Services in the Workplace: Keeping Employees Safe and Healthy Ensuring the health and safety of employees is more important than ever. Many companies are turning to injury prevention services to help keep their employees safe and healthy on the job.
Apr 23, 2024 Tips To Help Ease Back Pain Many people experience back pain at some time in their life. If you experience back discomfort keep in mind these eight tips to help ease the pain.
Apr 04, 2024 Should You Use Ice or Heat When You Have an Injury or Discomfort? Both ice and heat have benefits when used to manage symptoms of an injury or discomfort. Here are list of times to use each method.
Feb 18, 2024 What is Arthritis? Arthritis is very common, especially in people over the age of 50. The most common signs and symptoms of arthritis may include…
Jan 24, 2024 Injury Prevention: Examples of Musculoskeletal Injuries We all have aches and pains that resolve within 24 hours. The following are types of pains that are out of the ordinary, and may cause you to seek help.
Jan 11, 2024 Expect the Unexpected While on the Road With winter here, it is vital to protect yourself in the event of being stranded in your car. The following are items you should pack to be prepared for an emergency.
Dec 11, 2023 Ways To Manage Your Stress Stress is part of our lives, but do you know how to identify it? Better yet, do you have tangible ways to reduce stress? Here are some quick ways to identify both.
Oct 16, 2023 Tips To Losing Weight Losing weight comes down to one thing, consuming less calories than you burn in a day. Here are tips that are easy to do and will help keep the weight off permanently.
Sep 07, 2023 Living A Healthy Lifestyle Creating a healthy lifestyle is more than just eating right and exercising. Here are a few tips for leading a healthier lifestyle!
Jul 31, 2023 Energy Conservation Helpful tips to keep in mind to conserve your energy and improve your quality of life!
Jul 05, 2023 Importance of Getting Enough Sleep There is no place like your bed! This article provides quick tips to improve the quality of your sleep and the benefits you'll receive.
Jun 19, 2023 On-Site Injury Prevention Benefits Companies that utilize on-site therapists have seen as much as a 100% reduction in workers’ comp cases within the first year of implementation. However, the benefits extend beyond this initial goal, and both the employer and employee benefit greatly.
Jun 16, 2023 Healthy Eating Tips Eating a balanced diet helps us feel and function better. This article includes seven great tips that'll help you eat healthier.
May 04, 2023 7 Summer Safety Tips Summer is one of the best times to enjoy the beautiful outdoors. Let’s get you started in the right direction with some great safety tips so you can enjoy the season!
Mar 29, 2023 Gardening Benefits & Tips Warm weather and gardening is right around the corner…we hope! Make sure to reduce your risk of an injury when gardening with these nine helpful tips.
Mar 19, 2023 Injury Prevention Programs: How Are My Employees Going to Benefit? OSHA first aid early intervention programs are all the buzz these days. OccuCare's owner and partner, Jim Mecham, MSIE, OTR/L, CPE, covers what national data shows us.
Mar 08, 2023 9 Ways To Beat The Winter Blues Wintertime often leaves people with the Winter Blues — a term used for feeling down at this time of year. Here’s nine things you can consider to fight these feelings.
Jul 09, 2019 Eliminating Workplace Musculoskeletal Injuries — Trends Jim Mecham, MSIE, OTR/L, CPE has years of experience working with companies to eliminate workplace musculoskeletal injuries. He now writes about the trends he has seen over the years!
Apr 02, 2019 What is Ergonomics? Tom Rothery, OTR, CFCE, breaks down ergonomics – the study of designing equipment, devices, and processes that fit the human body and its cognitive abilities.
Dec 06, 2018 On-Site Early Intervention: Non work-related injuries Improving Health and Wellness Tom Rothery, OTR, CFCE, writes about a recent visit he had at a company to help an employee dealing with a non-work-related injury. Read his recent post to see the results!
Oct 25, 2018 On-Site OSHA First Aid for Work-Related Injuries Tom Rothery brings light to high-level services geared towards reducing and eliminating medical costs. This read includes a real-life example showcasing the benefits of these offerings.
Jun 21, 2018 Eliminating Your Workplace Injuries Looking to eliminate workplace injuries? Check out Mike Steinborn's blog post which discusses how you can significantly reduce workers' compensation costs.
Apr 04, 2018 Opiates in the Workplace Opiates in the workplace is an important issue that affects companies of all sizes. Dr. Ben Feinzimer, DO, MS, discusses this issue in his most recent blog post.
Jan 23, 2018 The Frank Consequences of Outdated Job Descriptions When is the last time your company took a look at your job descriptions? Mike Steinborn provides some great insight into outdated or incomplete job descriptions.
Jan 09, 2018 Most Common Workplace Injuries Going into the New Year Are you looking for the top solutions to help reduce your risk and overall work related injuries? OccuCare's Steve Ziccarelli provides some great insight.
Nov 20, 2017 Pre-shift Stretching Programs: Do They Really Reduce Injuries? Tom Rothery's, OTR, CFCE, Injury Elimination Specialist, new blog post discusses the importance and key points to implementing a successful pre-shift stretching program.
Aug 01, 2016 Functional Employment Testing Onboarding Done Right Did you know employee turnover can be as high as 50% in the first 18 months of job employment? Learn about the easy, cost-effective, and legal solution — post offer employment testing!
Mar 13, 2015 Top 5 Work Related Injuries In 2012 workplace injuries accounted for $60 billion in direct medical cost. Of this, ergonomic related injuries were 32.5% of this cost or a total direct medical cost of $20.4 billion dollars. Wow, $20.4 billion in ergonomic related injuries. Yes, billion with a B!
Jun 24, 2014 Trends in Post Offer Employment Testing Post offer employment testing has become very popular for companies worldwide. See what the latest trends are for POETs and learn about the tests you can provide to companies in your area.