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Duffy Rath Injury Prevention Program
On-site musculo-skeletal wellness program or injury prevention.
Description
- Musculoskeletal disorder prevention
- Does not include reported or recorded injury
- Does not include incidents (slips, trips, falls, cuts)
Benefits to Industry
- Decreases recordable incidents
- Decreases insurance premiums
- Decreases lost time costs
- Improves or maintains productivity
- Decreases medical costs
- Prevents unnecessary ergonomic evaluations
Program Components
- Training of all staff
- Symptoms of disorder
- Warning signs of repetitive injury
- Work habits, postures, positions and activities that prevent injury
- Individual intervention
- On-site, little or no time off job task
- Tools to fight back – work habits, stretches
- Follow-up
- Effectiveness of intervention
- Compliance with tools to fight back
- Development of new work habits
- Where behavior changes are ineffective or recurrent issues occur within job description or area
- Possible ergonomic changes/evaluation
Sample Cost Justification:
Single Back Injury
Avg. direct cost $11,454
Avg. indirect cost $12,599
Estimated total cost $24,053
Preventing one back injury a quarter can save close to $100,000 a year.
Additional Considerations
- On-site Duffy Rath (prevention) could allow on-site treatment (physical therapy services)
- Decreased cost of physical therapy services compared with in-clinic cost
- Reduced employee downtime for therapy visits
For further questions or pricing information on any Baptist Occupational Health service, please click here or call 901-722-WORK or 800-720-WORK.
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