Injury Prevention
Pre-employment functional assessments
Ensuring that there is a match between a prospective employee and the demands of a job and is very important for any employer and employee. It is also important to ensure that the candidate understands and can demonstrate safe manual handling techniques/ safe work practice is critical for their safety.
Catalyst Injury Management can assist employers and agencies to determine if there is a good match by a thorough musculo-skeletal assessment that can identify potential areas where problems may occur, eg, cardiovascular issues, lifting capacity or method, pre-existing musculo-skeletal problems. We also have access to a highly experience occupational physician who can address any complex health issues for a candidate and employer.
Catalyst Injury Management will make recommendation to the employer prior to placement on appropriate job modification or adjustment needed for the candidate.
Training
Catalyst Injury Management has appropriately qualified Assessors and Trainers and can build tailored training programs to meet the needs of the client. This training may include:
Work fitness programs
At Catalyst Injury Management, we are interested in avoiding workplace injury and sometimes it is simply a process of educating employees about stretching, appropriate exercise and fitness that can lead to a reduction in injury. There is sufficient evidence to suggest that these programs, if designed well, can increase productivity and reduce absenteeism.
Clinical Physical Assessment
A well timed clinical assessment can make all the difference and stop a niggle from turning into a debilitating condition. We have assisted hundreds of employees in the management of early clinical conditions and stopped the need for a workers compensation claim. They key is early intervention!
Treatment of injury at the centre or workplace
Catalyst Injury Management offer workplace based treatment services or we can see people in our Injury Management Centre based on the south side of Brisbane. We also have satellite offices and links throughout Queensland for those companies that are regional. Our treatment services are outcome focused and mean that employees do not lose time off work and can usually continue in the same job whilst they are being treated.
Stretching and Flexibility programs
In some industries, the work is repetitive and arduous and when a person uses the same muscles over and over again, they have a tendency to tighten and become painful. With a well planned and implemented program targeting the right muscles, there can be a real benefit to this type of program.
Manual Handling Training
The purpose of any training is to give staff an understanding anatomy and physiology as it relates to their work, to give staff an understanding of the risk factors associated with manual handling in their work, to teach them the skills in the safest manual handling techniques possible in their work and to ensure that each individual demonstrates competency in those skills and can apply them in a practical setting. This type of training is provided by qualified Trainers and Assessors.
Strategic advice on OHS and Employee Safety
Mostly employers want to ensure that they are providing the best environment and conditions for their valued employees. However they do not really know how to go about ensuring that they are complying with the myriad of legislation that is now governing their business and the safety of their workers. Catalyst Injury Management can assist employers with understanding this requirement and ensuring compliance.
Catalyst Injury Management understand the not every niggle felt in the workplace is a work related injury and we also know that not everyone wants to head straight to the Doctor with these types of complaints. |
