Healthcare Providers

"Hitting the Mark in Healthcare"

Healthcare Providers

      If your company is in the business of caring for the health of others, then your staff is part of one of the largest working populations that are at high risk for sustaining back injuries. Back injuries cost U.S. business over $37 billion annulally.
     With costs that high, it presents a tremendous opportunity for savings. You have the potential to decrease employee turnover, decrease sick time, decrease overtime to cover injured employees and improved productivity. Traditional back safety usually demonstrates techniques by lifting a box placed in the middle of the floor. In healthcare, employees move people not boxes. When we do move boxes they are usually stored in a cabinet or shelf, not in the middle of the floor.
      Functional Back Safety is a system developed for healthcare providers. It is backed by a 5 years study that reduced time lost to back injuries by over 65%. More importantly these results were maintained throughout the 5 years following our intervention.

FUNCTIONAL BACK SAFETY

     The Functional Back Safety program was originally designed to help hospitals reduce their growing cost of work related injuries. By the history and mechanisms of injury in healthcare we devised a new approach and new training for employees. From a 4-month baseline of averaging over 6 days lost per injury, Functional Back Safety reduced the average time lost per back  injury to less than 2 days.   More Importantly our 4 year follow-up demonstrated that our clients were able to sustain those results over the following four years.
     Our approach threw away the old school teachings typically demonstrated by lifting a box from the middle of the floor and was directed at correcting  the functional work activities of healthcare workers. Our course will teach your staff how to safely move and transfer patients, and teach a biomechanically sound approach the real tasks which they perform throughout the day.   The result has been tremendous savings not only in terms of employee injuries but in cost reduction, productivity, and insurance premiums.
                           To see how Functional Back Training can help your company
                             call K2-Healthcare Consulting at 704 806-9826.